Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-09-29
DOCTOR
DISCOVERS
NEWPER|L
CANCER GERMS lNFEST
DWELLING HOUSES
BacilIi Live in Wall Paper and
Woodwork Same as Those
of tuberculosis and Other
Dread MaIadieS,

Paris, Sept 2S.-Frenclr doctors
have made the startling and lugubrl-
Gus discovery that cancer can be con-
tracted by living in houses whose for
mer occupants have had the dread
disease.
There are cancerous houses just the
same as there are tuberculosis houses,
for the baccili lives in the walls,
woodwork and paper, and the doctors
show that during long series Of years
cases Of cancer have one after another
appeared in the same houses.
DR.. Alexandra Lambrior states that
at Jassy in a low part of the town
near to q brook, there Is house In
which ten persons have died of can
Ger in less than twenty-one years.
one family s. occupied the house
for five years, and one of its members
died of cancer A family l.. carnc
next. and two years later female
member of 1t was attacked by ma
lignant tumor and died, Afterwards a
family T. lived in the house for four
years, and mother and daughter died
of cancer. The family II. came, stay
ed four years, and had one death from
the same terrible disease. The h0use
with The curse was again occupied
with the family X, and Nine. h. di-
rectly after they left II had cancer
in the lip. NJ. NJ, who followed. died
of cancer two years later, and the
wife of S., who was the next occu-
pant, was operated on for cancer In
the right breast.
For eighteen months the house was
then vacant, but shortly after another
family 3. had taken II, and one of Its
members was attacked with cancer
adm died.
This terrible record might have
continued but luckily the evil hahita-
tion was burnt down by a fire. This
is only the most notable case OF
many cited. Dr. Guellot narrates. as
cited by Or. Flllassier in the "Ga-
zette Medieale," that In the same
apartment at Vouziers the husband.
wife. servant and father-in-law all
died of cancer In less than five years.
DR.. Arnaudet relates that IN 1889
there were in the Commune of Saint
Sylvestre-Cormeilles four hundred in
habitants, seventy-four OF whom died
in seven years, and that twenty-five
per cent Of these deaths we're caused
by cancer, all the cases being found
in the very circumscrlbed area round
about a spring of water.
In 1890 the same doctor found that
in one street in the above mentioned
parish one hundred and fifty yards
long. out of fifty-fOur houses cancer
broke out In seventeen, and that there
were twenty-One deaths, nearly all the
patients were close neighbors Or.
Arnaudet considers that these diseases
were not contracted by one person
from another. but that the habltatlon
played the chief role In It's dissemi-
nation.
DR.. Fillassier, In the article In the
Gazette Medicae. cites many other In
teresting similar cases, one of which
Is the instance noted by Miss Helen
Baldwin, who found that in one farm
five deaths from cancer had taken
place in thirty years.
Finally DR.. Fillassier gives the sta
tlstlcs of deaths from cancer in Paris
during the second half Of 1905. There
were registered 1,062 deaths from
cancer, of which zoos houses had one
death each, twelve houses had two
deaths, one house Ca religious retreat)
had four deaths, and five hospitals
had twenty-six deaths between them