Arizona republican., 1907-09-30
CANCER is
CATCHING
A Startling Discovery by
French Physicians
A House Cursed by the
Dread Disease for Il Long
Period of Years.

! Paris. Sept. 29.-French doctors have
made the startling and lugubrious dis
covery that cancer can be contracted
by living in houses whose former oc-
! cupants have had the dread disease.
! There are cancerous houses just the
same as there are tuberculosis houses,
for the baccili live in the walls, wook-
work and paper, and the doctors show
that during long series of years cases
of cancer have one after another ap-
[ peared in the same houses.
/ DIR. Alexander Lambrior states that
I at Jassy, in a low part of the town
/ near to a brook is a house in which
/ ten persons have-died of cancer in less
! than twenty-one years.
/ one family S. occupied the house for
( five years, and one of its members
died of cancer. \ family L. came next,
and two years later Il female member
of il was attacked by malignant
tumor and died. Afterwards a family
! T. lived in the house for four years,
/ and mother and daughter died of can
/ GER The family II. came, stayed for
/ four years. and had one death from the
/ same terrible disease. The house with
/ the curse was again occupied with the
family X, and Nine. X. directly after
I they left il had a cancer in the lip.
I NJ N. who followed. died of cancer
/ two years later. and the wife of s..
who was the next occupant, was oper-
ated on for cancer in the right breast.
4 For eighteen months the house was
/ then vacant. but shortly after another
( family b. had taken it, and one of its
members was attacked with cancer
! and died.
] This terrible record might have con-
I tinued but luckily the evil hab.tatiCn
was burnt down by a fire. This is only
/ the most notable case of many cited.
/ DIR. GuellOt narrates. as cited by Dr..
I Fillassier in the Gazette Medicale"
that in the same apartment at YOU
ziers, the husband. wife, servant and
! father-in-law all died of cancer in less
{ than five years. Dr. Arnaudct relates
/ that in 1889 there were in the Com
mune of -Sylvestre- Cormeilles
four hundred inhabitants, seventy-four
I of whom died in seven years, and that
! twenty-five per cent of these deaths
were caused by cancer. all the cases
being found i'm the very circumscribed
area round about a spring of water.
/ IN 1890 the same doctor found that
I in one street in the above mentioned
parish. one hundred and fifty yards
/ long out or fifty-four houses cancer
broke out in seventeen, and that there
were twenty-one deaths. nearly all the
patients were close neighbors. Dr.
Arnsudet. considers that these diseases
were not contracted by one person
/ from another. but that the habitation
played the chief role in its dissemina-
ton.
. DIR. Fillassier. in the article lin the
F Gazette Medicale 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.
I Finally DIR. Fillassier gives the sta
tistics of deaths from cancer in Paris
/ during the second half OF 1906. There
were registered 1862 deaths from can
/ Ger, of which zoos houses had one death
each, twelve houses had two deaths.
, one house "a religious retreaD had
four deaths. and hospitals had TWEEN
/ " deaths between them.