Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-09-24

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There are in the United States to-day
approximately eighty millions OF people, of whom mill
lion or will die each Of the total number OF
deaths Is per cent unnecessary and could be pre-
vented.
In a recent lecture before the New York Academy of
Medicine DR. A L. Reed of Cincinnati expressed the
same in another form when he declared that pre-
yentable diseases in the United States XIII one person
every two minutes the year. AT this rate the total
'ould up 500 lives deliberately thrown away
very twelve months Let him who thinks this startling
act Of concern to himself remember that death Is
snguarly indscriminating.
In Europe where human beings regarded as too
valuable to be wasted remarkable reductions nave
been made in the death rate England and Wales had,
in 9G3, death rate of 1914 per thousand, which was
decrease of 1872 cent from that OF the preceding
decade The Netherlands, with rate of 1876, showed
decrease of II per cent; Denmark 1873, decrease
OF 81 per cent; Holland 172 decrease of 65 per cent
Even Sweden where selfpreseryation had already De
religion, had been able to secure decrease OF
SIS per cent bringing her down to the remarkably low
figure Of 151 per thousand
But the most astounding thing is that while the death
in Europe continues to decline it has turned about
and is the increase in the United States In twenty
1--WE out of thirtysix larger cities the death rate
higher in 1906 than in 1905 and in nine of them
was higher than it had been in five years For the five
years from 1901 to the average death rate from
typhoid in Norway ST per 10000; in Switzerland,
65; in Germany, 7.6 in Japan, Ia; in the United
Kingdom 121; for the registration of the United
States 1922, six times the rate in Norway, four and
half times the rate in Germany, and nearly three
times the in England
BY the typhoid fever test human life is held cheaper
in Pittsburg than anywhere else for the death rate
from that prevenabe disease averaged 1895 per 100000
population for the five years ending with 1906 the high
est in the civilized world. Pueblo Colo, stood second
in this catalogue of shame. with a rate of 1885, Allie
gheny third 1t01 Jacksonville, Fla. 1853; Columbus
o., 70 3; Louisville, Ky, SIS And typhoid Is but
of the preventabIe diseases Disease works by stealth
in the darkened chamber. out of sight Of all but few
But Violence seeks crowds whore in the full glare of
MONDAY he strikes down his victims with all the bloody
ferocity of Indian
According to the mortality statistics of the United
States Bureau for 1906 deaths from all
violence the registration in 1906 aggregated 49,
552 This is at the rate of 1909 per 100000 as com
pared with rate of SOL in the German Empire in the
same year Nor is this all The rate exceeds that of
1905 which 1119, and greatly exceeds that any
preceding year The rate steadily from 81 per
OF all deaths in 1902 to rs per cent in 906 Vic
lence ranks nth among the principal Of
death. and the rate is still increasing.
The railroads led the slaughter in 1906 they do
to-day, with tally of 1000 Killed, compared with
44S5 in 1902 increase from 141 per 100000 to 1913
Other principal of death by violence with
number of deaths and the rate per 100000 inhabitants
are forth in the following table murders. suicides
and executions being omitted