Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-03
CANCER GERMS IN WALL PAPER
 HE SAYS
Paris Doctor Claims That Where One Case Of Disease Appears In A House, Others Will Surely Follow,


 PARIS. Oct. 2-French doctors have made the startling and lugubri- ous discovery that cancer can be con tracted by living in houses whose for mer occupants have had the dread disease.
 There are cancerous hoises just the same as there are tuberculosis houses. for the baecili lives in the walls. woodwork and paper. and he doctors show that during long series Of years cases of cancer have one after another appeared in the same houses.
 Dr. Alexander Lambrior states that at Jassy. in low part of the town near to brook, there is house in which ten persons have died of can cer ir less than twenty-ons years. One family s. occupied the house for five years. and one of it's members died of cancer. A family L. came next, and two years later female member of 1t was attacked by a 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 H. came, | from the same terrible disease. The house with the curse as again oceu- pied with the family K. and Mime. K. ! directly after they left it had cancer in the lip. M. M.. 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 l the right breast
 l Eo, ai .bo Lo,,.a ..-nz then vacant. but shortly another fam | fly B. had taken it, and one of it's members was attacked with cancer and died.
 This terribtg record nkght have continued, but luckily the evil habi- tation was burnt down by fire. This is only the moJt notable case of many cited. Dr. Guellot narrates, as cited by Dr. FiIlasier sn the Gazette Medicale," that in the same apart ' ment at VouzieTs. the husband, wife i 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 Syl- vestre-CoTmelles four hundred inhab- l itants, seventyfour of whom died in l seven years. and that twenty-five per l cent of these deaths were caused by cancer, all the casas being found in the very circumscribed 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 fsfty-four houses cancer broke out in seventeen. and that there I were twenty-one deaths. nearly all the patients we're close neighbors. DT. Arnaudet considers that these dis eases were not contracted by one person from another, but that the habitation played the chief role in it's dissemination
 Dr. Fillassser. in the article In the Gazette Medicale, cites many other f Interesting similar cases. one of hich is the instance noted by Miss Helen Baldwin, who found that in one farm l five deaths from cancer had taken ! place in thirty years.
 l Finally Dr. Fillassier gives the, sta- tistics of deaths from cancer in Paris during the second half of 1906. There were registered 1,062 deaths from cancer. of which, 1908 houses had one death each. twelve houses had I two deaths, one house Ca religious retreat) had four deaths, and five hospitals had twenty-six among them.