The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-24
ALARMING DEATH
N RATE FROM. CANCER.
Growth OF Disease Among For
cign Born Population Is
Startling.
MAY BE DUE no CANNED MEAT
Germans and Irish Arc More
Often Victims Than Other
Peoples.

Fl CHICAGO. ILL. September 23.--Chi-
cago scientists are deeply Interested in
the results OF two years exhaustive
research upon cancer In Chicago by DR..
q. Cooke Adams, OF LONDON. and for
merly of Australia, Just made public
here through the Department OF Health.
Or. Adams has proved conclusively that
diet plays most important factor in
the increase of the disease and It's
death rate.
The increase from cancer in Chicago
from 1855 to 1905 was 232 per cent;
in 1866, one In each 104 deaths was due
to cancer. and In 1905 It had increased
to one death in every twenty three.
The results show that the Increase Is
due to the foreign-born inhabitants as
the native Chicago-born show the low
est death rate in the world.
During the last seven years, OF 5ss35
deaths among the Chicago-bo from all
causes. there were only 17S deaths due
there were 61,019 deaths from all
causes among foreign-born inhabi-
tants (who comprise over one-third
OF the total population), and there
were 4,463 deaths from cancer.
The cancer death rate per 100000
living over forty years of age of the
different foreign born inhabitants show
that the German is 7bl: irish, 100;
Scandinavian, $40; Slovenian, 800; other
foreign. 456; Italian. So; colored. So.
Chicago and Illinois born, So.
OF Germans dying in Chicago at the
age Of forty years and over one In
every four dies from cancer. In Ger
dying in Chicago. aged forty and over.
one in six dies from cancer. while in
ireland 1t is one in Fifteen, whereas,
among the Chicago and illinois born
dying in Chicago. aged forty years and
over. there is only one death IN seven
ty-tWo from cancer.
The deatl-rate among the foreign
born from cancer in Chicago is rapidly
increasing. The German and irish
show the highest, death-rate ~ from
cent. higher than In their native coun-
trics. The Italians and Chinese main
tain the lowest death-rate of all from
a cancer as shown in their own coun-
tries.
Or. Adsms's Researches.
Concerning his researches. DR.. Adams
MY statistical investigations In Eu,
rope. Great Britain and in the United
States of America fully corroborate m,
earlier Australian observations.
The increase of cancer and 1ts
death rate ate in the United States. par
ticularly among the foreign born IN.
labitants, Is alarming. the mortality
of the foreign born being far In ex-
cess of the death rate OF the native
born. and contributing the greatest
greatest part toward the generally
high mortality. The increase In can
Ger mortality may be demonstrated by
a study of the vital statistics OF any
large American city. the tables OF chi
cago giving the following results:
IN Chicago from 1856 to 1855 there
was an increase In the death rate from
cancer of $50 per cent. while from 1856
| to 1905 the increase was 232 per cent
in 1856 but / in each 1000 deaths was
from cancer: in 1856 this had increased
TO ! In each 1854; in 1905 1T was IN
% deaths. while In 1905 ! death in
every ais was due to this disease.
"The same tables show plainly the
terrible mortality among the foreign
born residents of Chicago, particularly
among the Germans. Irish. Scandina-
vians and slavonians. The cancer
death rate among the Irish and Ger
man residents of Chicago is the high
est in the world. being nearly 800 per
cent. higher than in their native coun-
tries. The Chicago mortality tables
show that Of four deaths among Ger
mans over forty years OF age, is
from cancer. In Germany 1t is in
-. OF the Irish dying In Chicago over
forty years OF age, / in every 6 dies
from cancer. while the cancer death
rate in Ireland at the same age is l
in Is.
"a study was made of the number
of deaths from cancer in the fifteen
sanitary divisions of the city of Chi