The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-11-05

approximately eighty millions of people, of whom mill
lion will die each OF the total number Of
deaths 25 per are unnecessary 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-
ventable diseases in the United States kill
every two minutes of the At this rate the total
would foot up $4,000 lives deliberately thrown away
every twelve months Let him who thinks this startling
fact of concern to himself remember that death is
snguarly discriminating
In Europe, where human beings regarded as too
valuable to be wasted remarkable reductions have
been made in the death rate England and Wales had
In 1903, death rate of 15.4 thousand, which
decrease Of 1922 cent from that of the preceding
decade. The Netherlands, with rate of 1885, showed
decrease of II per cent Denmark, 1873, decrease
of 81 per cent; Holland 172 a Of 65 per cent
Even Sweden, where selfpreservaton had already be-
a religion, had been able to decrease of
Sc bringing her down to the remarkably low
figure of ISL per thousand.
But the most astounding thing is that while the death
rate in Europe continues to Decline has turned about
and the increase in the United States. In twenty
five out of thirysix larger cities the death rate
higher in 1906 than in 1905, and in nine Of them it
higher than 1t had been in five years. For the five
years from 1901 to 1906 the death rate from
typhoid in Norway 81 100000 In Switzerland,
6.5; in Germany, 76; in Japan, ia; in the United
Kingdom 121 for the registration of the United
States 322 six times the rate in Norway four and
half times the rate in Germany, and nearly three
times the rate in England.
BY the typhoid fever test human life Is held cheaper
in Pittsburg than anywhere else, for the death rate
that preventable disease averaged 1896 100000
population the five years ending with 1906 the high
est in the civilized world Pueblo Colo stood second
in this catalogue of shame, with rate of 1885, Allie
gheny third, 11O1; Jacksonville Fla, 1885, Columbus
o. 1928 Louisville, KY, 676 And typhoid is but one
Of the preventabe Disease works by stealth
in the chamber out of sight of all but few
But Violence seeks crowds where in the full glare Of
MONDAY he strikes his victims with all the bloody
ferocity of an Indian massacre
According to the mortality statistics of the United
States Census Bureau for 1906 deaths from all forms of
violence the registration in 1906 aggregated 49,
552 This is at the rate of 1909 per 100000 as COM
pared with rate of 301 in the German Empire In the
same year. Nor Is this ALL The rate exceeds that OF
1906 which III g. and greatly exceeds that of
preceding year. The rate steadily from 81 per
cent of all deaths in 1902 to rs cent In 1906 VIC
lence ranks fifth the principal causes OF
DEATH and the rate is still increasing.
The railroads led the slaughter in 1906 as they do
to-day with tally of 1000 killed, as compared with
1885 in 1902 increase from AL 100000 to 173
Other principal of death by violence with total
number of deaths the rate 100000 inhabitants
are set forth the following table, murders suicides
and executions being omitted: