Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-10-01

There are IN the united SatcS Io-o&y
approximately eighty millions Of people Of whom mil
lion or more will year OF the total number OF
deaths Is per cent and could be pre-
vented"
In recent lecture before the New York Academy of
Medicine DR.. c. A L. Reed of Cincinnati expressed the
idea in another form when he declared that pre-
ventabe diseases the United States kill one person
every minutes of the At this rate the total
would foot up 262,SOO lives deliberately thrown away
every twelve months Let him who thinks this startling
fact of to himself remember that death Is
snguary indscrminatng
In Europe where human beings regarded as too
valuable wasted, remarkable reductions have
been made in the death rate. England and Wales had,
in 1908 death rate Of 1874 per thousand, which was
decrease of 322 cent from that of the preceding
decade. The Netherlands, with rate OF 1885, showed
a decrease of II per cent Denmark, 1853 a decrease
81 per Holland ia decrease of s5 per cent
Sweden, where selfpreservaton had already be
religion, had been able to secure decrease OF
Sc per cent bringing her down to the remarkably low
figure of 151 per thousand.
tho astounding thing Is that, while the deatn
rate in Europe continues decline has turned about
the increase in the United States In twenty
five out of hirtysx larger cities the death rate was
higher in than in 1905. and in nine OF them IT
was higher than in Ave years. For the Ave
years from 1901 1905 the death rate from
typhoid in Norway ST per 100000 in Switzerland,
6.5; in Germany, rs; in Japan, H. In the United
Kingdom 121; the registration OF the United
States 1922 six times the rate in Norway four and
a half times the rate in Germany, and nearly three
times the rate in England.
BY typhoid fever test human life is held cheaper
in Pittsburg than anywhere else, for the death rate
from preventable disease averaged 1895 per 100000
population the five ending with 1906 the high
est civilized world Pueblo, Colo stood second
this catalogue Of shame, with rate OF 1885; Allie
gheny third 1101 Jacksonville, Fla. 1853; Columbus,
o. II 8; Louisville, KY 67.6. And typhoid is but one
of the preventable diseases Disease works by stealth
in the darkened chamber of sight Of all but few.
But Violence seeks crowds where In the full glare of
MONDAY strikes down his victims with ali the bloody
ferocity of an Indian massacre.
According the mortality statistics of the United
States Census for 1905 deaths from all forms of
violence registration in 1906 aggregated 49,
552 This the rate Of 1909 100000, COM
Dared with rate in the German Empire in the
same year Nor Is this all The rate exceeds that Of
1905 which 1119, and greatly exceeds that of any
preceding year The rate steadily from 81 per
cent in 1902 to IS cent in 1905. Vic
lence now fifth among the principal causes OF
death and the rate is still increasing.
The railroads led the slaughter in 1906, they do
to-day with tally of 900 killed, compared with
44S5 1902 increase from al 100000 to 173
Other principal Of death by violence with total
number and the rate 100000 inhabitants
are set in the following table murders, suicides
and executions being omitted