The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-10-14


.nrroximasey eighty millions Of people, Of whom mil
lion or more will each OF the total number OF
deaths rs per cent unnecessary and could be pre-
vented"
Tn recen+ lec,ure before the New York Academy Of
Medicine DR. G. A. L. Reed of Cincinnati expressed the
same idea another form when he declared that pre-
yentable diseases in the United States kill person
every minutes of the At this rate the total
would foot up 500 lives deliberately thrown away
every twelve months him who thinks this startling
fact of to himself remember that death Is
sngularly discriminating.
In Europe where human beings regarded as too
valuable be wasted remarkable reductions nave
been made in the death rate England and Wales had,
1903 death rate of 154 per thousand which was
decrease of 1922 per from that of the preceding
decade. The Netherlands. with rate of 1873, showed
a decrease Of II per cent; Denmark 1873, decrease
of 81 per cent; Holland 172 decrease OF SO per cent
Even Sweden where selfpreservation had already be-
come religion had able to secure decrease OF
per cent bringing her down to the remarkably low
figure Of 151 per thousand.
But the astounding thing Is that while the death
Europe continues to decline it has turned about
and on in the United States In twenty
five out Of thirysix larger cities the death rate was
higher 1906 than in 1905, and In nine of them II
was higher than 1t had been In five years For the nve
years from 1906 the death rate from
typhoid In Norway 81 100000; in Switzerland
SIS; In Germany, 49, in Japan, ia; In the United
Kingdom 121; the registration area 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 the typhoid fever test human life is held cheaper
in Pittsburg than anywhere else for the death rate
from that preventabe averaged 1895 100000
population the five ending with 1906 the high
est in the civilized world Pueblo, Colo. stood second
this catalogue of shame, with rate or 1885, Allie
gheny third 1101 Jacksonville, Fla. 1868; Columbus,
o. " 8; Louisville, KY. 676. And typhoid Is but one
of the preventabe diseases Disease works by stealth
in the chamber out of sight of all but few
But Violence 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 for 1906 deaths from all forms of
violence the registration In 1906 aggregated 49,
552 This is at the rate of 1903 per 100000, 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 1119 and greatly exceeds that of any
preceding year The rate steadily from 81 per
cent all deaths in 1902 to 10 cent in 1906 VIC
lence ranks 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 1000 killed, compared with
44S5 1902 increase from 141 per 100000 to 17.3
Other principal Of death by violence with total
number of deaths and the rate per 100000 inhabitants
are set forth the following table, murders, suicides
and executions being omitted