The Commission of Doctors appointed by the Medical Faculties of Holland, Sweden, and Norway to examine the conditions in Germany reported as follows in the Swedish Press in April, 1919: "Tuberculosis, especially in children, is increasing in an appalling way, and, generally speaking, is malignant.
In the same way rickets is more serious and more widely prevalent.

It is impossible to do anything for these diseases; there is no milk for the tuberculous, and no cod-liver oil for those suffering from rickets....
Tuberculosis is assuming almost unprecedented aspects, such as have hitherto only been known in exceptional cases.

The whole body is attacked simultaneously, and the illness in this form is practically incurable....

Tuberculosis is nearly always fatal now among adults.

It is the cause of 90 per cent of the hospital cases.