Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-11-19


approximately eighty millions of people, of whom mil
lion will die each year Of the total number of
deaths 25 per cent 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-
ventabe diseases in the United States kill
every two minutes of the year. At this rate the total
would foot up 262S0O lives deliberately thrown away
every twelve months Let him who thinks this startling
fact of to himself remember that death is
singulary discriminating
In Europe where human beings are regarded as too
valuable to be wasted some remarkable reductions have
been made in the death rate. England and Wales had,
in 1903, death rate of 1874 per thousand, which
decrease of 1922 per cent from that of the preceding
decade The Netherlands, with rate of 1885, showed
a decrease of II pers cent Denmark, 15.S decrease
of 81 cent; Holland, 172 decrease Of 65 cent
Even Sweden, where selfpreservaton had already be-
come religion, had been able to secure decrease Of
b6 cent bringing her down to the remarkably low
figure of 151 per thousand.
But the astounding thing is that while the death
rate in Europe continues to decline has turned about
and is the increase in the United States In twenty
five out of hirtysix larger cities the death rate
higher in 1906 than in 1905, and in nine of them 1t
was higher than it had been in five For the five
years from 1901 to 1906 the average death rate from
typhoid in Norway 81 per 100000 in Switzerland
6.5; in Germany, 76; in JAPAN 11.4 in the United
Kingdom, 121; for 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
from that preventable 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 rate of 1885, Allie
gheny third 1101; Jacksonville, Fla, 1853; Columbus
o. 1928; Louisville, KY, 67.6. And typhoid is but
of the preventable diseases Disease works by stealth
in the darkened chamber out of sight of all but few.
But Violence seeks crowds where in the full glare of
MONDAY he strikes down his victims with all the bloody
ferocity of an Indian
According to the mortality statistics of the United
States Census Bureau for 1906 deaths from all
violence in the registration in 1906 aggregated 49,
552 This is at the rate of 1903 per 100000, COM
pared with rate Of 3O1 in the German Empire the
same year. Nor is this all. The rate exceeds that of
1906 which 1119 and greatly that of any
preceding year. The rate steadily from 61 per
cent of all deaths in 1902 to 75 per cent in 1906 vio
lence ranks fifth among 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 1890 killed. compared with
4485 in 1902 increase from 141 per 100000 to 173
Other principal of death by violence with total
number of deaths and the rate per 100000 inhabitants
set forth in the following table, MURDERS suicides
and executions being omitted: