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New-York tribune., 1910-07-31
Killing More Women Than tuberculosis

long since instituted a we'll organized cam
paign against the white plague, with re-
suits that even now justify the hope or
speedy control. with the possibility or
ultimate conquest
IN New York City in 1903 the death rate
from cancer was 75.4 per 100000. The dif-
ference in the different boroughs of New
York is noteworthy.
I'm the Borough of The Bronx the rate
is highest, being 95S: it is lowest in Queens.
namely 6S per 100000
THE mortality of the white and colored
population under the same conditions in
New York City is practically the same.
viz. 75.4 white, us colored. The death
rate of the colored population shows most
extraordinary differences in the different
boroughs. In Manhattan borough it is 5l.5
per 10000: in Bronx, 244 in Richmond, loo
1T is very difficult 10 explain these diff
ferences, especially as the general cancer
death rate throughout the South is dis
tinctly lower in the colored race than in
the white 1t is also lower in New York
City in general
Cancer has already increased to such
an extent that at the present date it
causes more deaths among women than
tuberculosis. in 1905 the rate being 100 can
Ger deaths to "a from tuberculosis. Even
taking men and women together and at all
New-York tribune., 1910-07-31
o;,y Should Be Aroused TO NeceSSfty OF Supplying
More Funds for Inx'eSfteoff0n

and well-to-do than among the poor aqo
in fed A careful study of the cancer stat
isties. however. does not fully bear out '--is
assumption
MY own feeling is that 5he most "a
tionaI explanation is 20 assume t"A'
Ger is Of extrinsic or micrObic origin
In view of the fact that Dr- NoleS Il.
his thesis declared that the problem hlOS'
he attacked from all sides and tnat .
atorv studies alone could not soiVe '"e
c,-aa+ nrohIeun of the cause % cancer.
,e,,rssentative of The Tribune asked nm
if he had anything To suggest as 20 t'e
organization of a campaign against tne
plague. but he replied: Not a word rof
the daily press
What an ordinary layman Is able % oe-
duce from all this is that the physlc
themselves are SO much in the dark con-
corning cancer that they dare not say 70
the public: You must do thus or So
What appears TO be needed i increaSeu
endowments in all institutions where can
Ger may properly be studied and is de,Ni-
opment observed y Z VI
New-York tribune., 1910-07-31
THE FACTORY QUESTION.

II said that Commissioner Tomkinss plan
was a step in the wrong direction. he
saws frankly that one object of it is to
build I'D a factory district on Manhattan
Island. lust back from his proposed frelshl
terIninals-that is, on the West Side, from
I'D street 10 42d street. But Manhattan has
TOO many factories already. Here are ouI
municipal officers, philanthropists ano
TRANSFORMATION men doing their best TO gel
our. contested population scattered about
little. and Mr.. Tonakins proposes the Dig
sest congestion Of industry that was ever
deliberately planned in America
Then, his plan gives no chance Tor MS
transfer yards and terminals TO grow Win
rhe growth of commerce. They will be
-Vedsed in. with the river on one SIDE ana
on the other side q great factory district,
where property values have been bul4t up
70 prohibitive prices by the very con-
veniences those yards Were made 10 fur
rish. And. as q minor objection, though
an important one, the congestion IN the
river itself is likely TO make the whole plan
su,n-actica bic. The Commissioner proposes
10 hiring all the car floats in the harbor and
ali the floats that will ever be used In the
harbor 10 e single landing place above 5'th
street
Now. there is nothing on earth that Is
so clumsy as a car float. Already they in
1erfere with the ferryboats IN the North
New-York tribune., 1910-07-31

II his address on The Increase OF can
cer'- read before the Southern Surgical
and genealogical Association Dr. coiey
says:
"A great mass of evidence based upon
vital statistics shows a well marked ana
steady increase in cancer in practically
every civilized country Attempts TO eX-
plain away this increase as an apparent
and not real increase are far from con-
vincing Without any further increase the
present death rate from cancer is appalling.
The actual death rate from cancer Is
much higher than the known rate by
reason of the fact that in many cases OF
patients dying from internal metastases
the strong prejudice of the relatives against
the name of cancer is respected by the
family physician. and some secondary
cause of death appears in the certificate
instead of the urinary cause, cancer.
New-York tribune., 1910-07-31
QUIT PRACTICE TO WRITE.

So general has become the policy Of 81
Ience on the part OF physicians concerning
cancer that one English physician. Dr. c.
" Saleeby. OF London, abandoned the
practice Of his profession in order that
ne might be free to write on cancer for
public enlightenment This attitude OF
the cancer specialists is the more re-
nlarkable because an organized campaign
against cancer has been waged for more
than ten years in the medical departments
Of the universities OF this country and
vast sums have been given for the pur-
pose Of Investigating the disease Notable
among these gifts are the Crocker fund,
al Columbia: the Coils p. Huntington
fund. at Cornell; the Caroline Brewer
Croft fund. at Harvard. and the generous
donations 10 the New York Cancer Hos
pitaL
The Caroline Brewer Croft fund, placed
a1 the disposal of Harvard University,
led 10 the creation OF the cancer com
mission Of that institution, which COM
mission IL lately published report
announced: The commission feels that
rlle Investigation of cancer has now
reached = point where il is possible to
take d departure IN this direction on i
fer more extended scale than has ever
Le-1 atteupted and on lines even broader,
New-York tribune., 1910-07-31

10 one item. He points to the prophet
Daniel with his pulse AM water and points
out what came of it. He tells how Plato
lived on wheat. ligs and honey and how
the great Newton found it necessary TO
simplify his diet while writing his 'Frtn-
cipia.' Look at the japanese, that doctor
s.ys Sec how the 'rickshaw men draw
their carts all day. They can carry you
all day at a dog trot on pound ut rice
and TWO quarts of tea. They defeated The
be cf-ea tinc Russians. Before the railroads
Hindu postal runners used To 90 their
sixty miles a daE on rice % mIliet. Ana
there are the i}uI=arilns with their simple
diet and the highest percentage of cente-
raTiaps. 1T has been discovered. lie an
rouucoS. that each kind Of tc"d requires
FOR its digestion a special secretion and
that. therefore, Il complex diet ovcrtaXes
the system. Ii may be so / don't know
never heard before thdt the stomach was
provided with such wonderful outtt Of
different kinds OF juices. Rut the doctor
has declared it. so it must be So.
Then. he!e is ar authority who says II
Is q mistake to live for Il long time ON
too exclusive dietary. because even q sin
gle species of food may vary iu it. ccIn-
position accordins to the season. The eli
mate ana the soil in which II is grown.
Il -ncooi,ed food. deo.arcs another. is the
solution of the ills of life l wish tne raw
food avocates would agree among them
selves. The 'Edenc' school advocates fruits
and nuts. Others allow 'Srains and cereals
and another bunch adds fresh cen leaves
10 its menu Most of the veSetarianS seem
to think that it's all right to take animal
food. such as butter md eggs. and the
supporters of 'uniired food wliunS TO
eat bread.
These veSetarianS seem To be regular
propa sandistS. They have what they call
hot shot at the Beef Trust. 'Ge ms can
not infest the bodies of those who feed on
natural food because there ts no nth for
the germs 10 feed en- Perhaps it's meat l
ought TO give up. tn win favor in the
kitchen ii | do. for meat makes dishWash-
ing "a dirty, greasy task. Yes, must give
up flesh food for Tie reasons.
''Eut the Salisbury treatment consists of
an exclusive diet of fresh meat and hot
water. This is yeXatious. 1 can't be a
New-York tribune., 1910-07-31
IN AN OPTIMISTIC VEIN.

DR.. Levin, Of Columbia University, how
ever sounds a note of hope. and tells the
person afflicted with cancer not to despair.
In the July number of THE Review of Re
views DIR. Levin refers to the various
treatments for cancer. including starvation.
the X-ray and radium treatments. but he
does not venture to indorse any suggested
cure for the disease, which is known to
have existed from the most remote times.
He refers to the t'Papyrus Ebers." which
is believed to have been written 1850 B. c.,
and which contains short section on
malignant tumors from which 1t may be IN
ferred that the cardinal features of the
mslady were then well recognized
Fifty years have passed since Rudolph
Vfrchow. then professor in the University
of Freiburg. demonstrated that all organic
action is in the last resort a question of
cellular activities, and. specifically, that all
abnormal changes in any tissue of the
body. due 10 whatever disease, can consist
of nothing more than the destruction or
the proliferation or the alteration OF the
cells that compose that tissue.
Cohnheim's subsequent Investigations
gave hope that the cause of cancer would
soon be definitely determined, and medical
bodies the world over are engaged in the
comes more general and is now invading
sections, notably Australia, where In the
early days its presence was not known.
Dr. Roy +. Edwards, of Newark, \. j.,
has made an investigation Of the cancer
scourge in thirty-five cities in the United
States, and declares there is little doubt
that the disease is on the increase.
-'Of 375 $50 deaths among males reported
in the registration area of the United
States in 1907" says DR.. Edwards, cancer
caused E,G90 deaths, or 81 per cent, and Of
the 81 O4 deaths of females, S.7li, or 8
per cent, were classified as due TO cancer
and malignant tumors. In the aggregate
cancer, d cause OF death, ranked eighth,
causing "A per cent of the total mortality.
These figures indicate an increase of q per
100. 600 OF population in the cancer mortality
rate over the preceding year, 1906 for the
same area.
DR.. Edwards has prepared a table illus
trating the death rates from cancer III
thirty-five cities individually and in the
aggregate for periods of five years. "Of
the rHenty-eifht Northern and Western
cities he finus two have more than dou-
l,led-Haverhill. with an increase in the
death rate of 674 per 1G1,Gb0 of population,
and San Francisco, with an increase of 81. d.
In the cities having i population of
New-York tribune., 1910-07-31
Cancer Is Now Xii

; 900 or more in 1907, the increase in the
death rates has been as follows: Chicago,
leading. with 800; Baltimore. second, with
29.2 ST. Louis, with 25.2; Philadelphia, with
A.6: Boston, with 22.7; Manhattan and The
Bronx, with 210, and Brooklyn. with 20.6.
In eleven of the twenty eight Northern
and Western cities there has been a steady
increase over each preceding quinquennium,
and in the aggregate the increase has been
consistent. New Bedford, Mass, with 0.S
per 100000 of population, shows the smallest
rate of increase: Cambridge is next, with a
rate of Ill. and Gloucester is third with a
rate of 17.3."
The increase in cancer cases throughout
the country may be seen in the accompany
ing table, prepared by DR.. Edwards:
New-York tribune., 1910-07-31

ages the death rate from cancer Is rap'uiS
approaching that of tuberculosis rom
1851 to 1860 the death rate per 1.H0r" hVlls
WAS sI7 for cancer 2.S75 for phthisis ana
S07 for other tuberculous diseases. Whl'e
from 1891 10 1900 the rate was i5i for can
Ger. 1891 tor phthisis and 6l9 for other
tubercuIous diseases.
"A careful analysis of the statistics oi
cancer that are obtainable at the present
time forces one to the conclusion that there
is a constant and considerable increase LII
the number of people afflicted with cancer
in all civilized countries How can we pest
explain this increase?
The pathologists. together WIN 'He
cIinicians who accept Cohnheim 5 theor!
as the true explanation of the cause OF can
Ger. try t. explain this increase OF the can
Ger mortality by changes in the mode OF
living as compared with previous years
MANY. like Roger Williams. believe Inat
the Increased consumption of uitroSenouS
food has much to do with the Increase ot
cancer Attempts have been made TO snow
that it is more prevalent among the nch
New-York tribune., 1910-07-31
Mine Rescue Work
Men Trained for Emergencies
i'm Pennsylvania Coal Fields.

vyfTkes-Rarre, Penn. July 90.-When Sec
re+arv BaIIinger has the government rescue
sFatfon for the anthracite mining region
opened here within the next few weeks the
government officials in charge Of It viii
find that similar rescue stations, established
bv two of the big coal companies here, have
already done much excellent work The
men of these companies. the Lehigh and
WiIkes-Ba Coal Company and the Sus-
ouehanna Coal Company, will not require
anv instruction from the government STA
tion. which will likely do most OF its WorE
among the smaller coal companies and at
the mines of the independent operators. and
it's eight helmets for entering mines that
are ON fire or are filed with nOXious gases
will be used among these companies
The Letigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal COM
many under the direction OF vice-prsSlcent
and General Manager Charles F Huber
and the Susquehanna Coal Company, under
the direction OF General Manager Robert
A Ouin. have opened rescue stations, tHat
of the former company being in this city
and having six helmets, and thai or the
latter company being at NanrlcoF@ ana
having twelve helmets These stations are
60 situated that the helmets and other
fire smoke or gas fighting apparatus ean
he sent quickly 10 any Of the compa1y's
other collierireS.
These mining officials, who devoted niUsh
time m Iavtng out the plans for -he NJ
st<rctfon in rescue work. decided thal H.
stead of having one rescue corps S1a'l'l71
II a central place it would be better 20
have a special corps at each coilery- A.
cordinelv. at each colliery OF these
two companies there is a corps OF FROM
,veutv to twenty-five men who are co'liPe-
,e,t to do rescue work, who know no" 70
,,sa the helmets and who know the mine III
which they are employed SO well that 'i-ry
can get about In any part OF it, WIKI thls
1,novVIedge il is certain that a rescue party
M each coIHery can do better Worh thah
one rescue party sent from central SJa-
ton.
II is expected that the government sta-
tior Will be opened here next month ana
the officials in charge will then proceed %
educate rescue corps from each mine IN ne
region. excepting those of the TWO big COM
paries whose rescue corps are already
formed and we'll trained
New-York tribune., 1910-07-31
Attacs Dock Plans Freight Terminal
sueeesfs Instead a Belt Line GfrdhnS the
Whole Manufacturing District

rather short sighted in view Of the IN
rnense growth in manufacturing which viii
take place over there. in the region just
back from the waterfront. within few
years.
THE Pennsylvania Railroad is said TO
have a more comprehensive plan It In
tends to connect its line with Long Island
by a branch across Staten Island and tGn-
ueIs under the Narrows, and then TO gain
direct route TO New England by bridge
over He'll Gate and tracks connecting with
the New Haven road But even II II should
carry out It's plan. IL would have solved the
problern of only a single road II would De
far better to have a single great belt road
that would afford an easy transfer for all
the lines and direct and economical route
into the crowded warehouse districts II
Manhattan"
New-York tribune., 1910-07-31
PLAN OF GREAT MAGNITUDE.

..r said that some day there would have
to be a great belt line railroad around
New York. I say, too, that II is tihie W
start building it right now IL VIII co
costly. but MI Tomkins's scheme Is esu-
mated to cost s100.OOooo0, and you can DO
whole lot with that amount of money. II
is better to put 1t into part OF big pan
that will be adequate when 1t is done than
70 spend It trying to hold back the natural
movement of factories into the suburbs
Now, here is my plan. 1 would have
+ba holt line run at a considerable distance
from the city Starting perhaps at the
Hudson opposite Kingsbridge, would have
II rim through or near Hackensack, Pater-
son Passaic. Newark Elizabeth, under the
XIII van Kull by tunnel or over II py
bridge. across Staten Island, through tun-
neIs under the Narrows, through southern
BROOKLYN and Queens probably passing
near the great steamship terminals ana
factories which will be built on Jamaica
Bav then through Long Island city anu
over OF under the East River 10 The Bronx,
across to the Hudson and over or unoer
that river to join the line on the other
side The line would probably be OF four
tracks for most of the distance.
."There should be freight transfer yards
at its intersections with the Hnes OF the
trunk railroads. In this way the yards
will be kept out of the city. Freight that
is merely to be transferred from one line
TO another and not brought into the city
will be carried over the belt line and put
directly on the tracks Of the line Of destina-
ton without coming into Manhattan or
being ferried on the harbor- Branch lines
centring in the transfer yards will pick
up freight from the factories and from
the piers at the Bush Terminal, Jamaica
Bay and outlying terminals that may be
I,-;y
New-York tribune., 1910-07-31
increase of Dread Scourse Is Puzzlne Scfenffsfs
as Much the Disease Itself.

than those which have been laid down for
the study and control of tuberculosis"
The work of this commission has been
conducted with unflagging zeal on re-
search lines and in cooperation not only
with the organizations engaged in like re-
search work in this country. but with
those abroad. particularly in England and
Japan.
Yet DR.. w. Roger Williams, fellow of the
Royal College of Surgeons, in his Natural
History of Cancer published in England.
in 1908, says: The cure of cancer alto
gether transcends present experience. The
subject of cancer has hitherto been investi-
gated hardly at all by the synthetical and
comparative methods which have been SO
proftably employed in other branches of
biological research"
New-York tribune., 1910-07-31
SUGGESTS INITIAL STEP.

Chicago and Indianapolis have built oe-'
lines and found them immensely prohtaole-
New York and the Jersey towns ought 10
get together with the railroads and oulld
one here beginning could be made at d
cost that would not be prohibitive- The sec
ton from the West Shore road, near Engle-
wood. running near Hackensack, Paterson,
Passaic. Newark and Elizabeth. would in
tersect all the WEI tern lines in Jersey. 1ne
central transfer yard, the branch TO Man
haitian and the terminals here Should also
ne built That would solve the problem OF
getting freight across the North RIVER a
subway extension along the East River
ua+erfront TO connect with the New Haven
road at Port Morris would link the Eastern
and Western roads at once, and fhlsht
serve that purpose until the rema1ndef OF
the belt line was completed
..Of course | do not suppose that the
pIan I have suggested will be carried OUT
with the details exactly as L have described
them, but 1 think everybody who mas
studied the freight situation in and around
New York realizes that some Such plan
will have to be carried out some day VIII
lam T. Wilgus who was formerly wee
president of the New York Central mas
suceested part of the scheme-that "nlch
! r-o1-ides for waterfront fTeiSht subway
for Manhattan with a belt line connection
to the New Jersey trunk roads. He would
,rn his Jersey belt line close to the water
| front there, which. it seems to me. il
New-York tribune., 1910-07-31

The problem must be attacked from all
sides-the clinical as well as the laboratory.
Once aroused to the Importance of this
problem the laity will lend its support by
way of greatly increased endowments for
cancer research work, and better and more
efficient cooperation of state and national
boards of health will follow.
1T is remarkable fact says DR.. Coley,
that d disease widely prevalent as
cancer and one that has from time i'm
memorial held first place in the amount of
suffering that it inf1icts upon its victims
and is now approaching front rank in the
number of those victims, should have re-
ceived such meagre attention from both
local and national boards of health. Anti
tuberculosis leagues have become universal,
New-York tribune., 1910-07-31
A CENTRAL TRANSFER YARD.

Then there should be one main trans
fer yard out IN Jersey. where land is cheap,
at a point that is central as possible for
all the Western lines, perhaps somewhere
near Newark. From there line should
run to Manhattan Island through tunnels
under the river. Two or three great ter
minals should be built here for the deliv-
cry to trucks and the receipt of outgoing
freight The New York Central would
furnish direct connection from the Man
haitian terminals to the belt line to the
north, and third branch should be run
under the East River from Manhattan di-
rectly to the Jamaica Bay district con-
Meeting with the belt line there.
When this has been done the dispatch of
freight from the city will be comparative
" simple. It will go directly from the
wagons into the cars in the terminal sta
tions. If the freight is in carload lots it
will not have to be handled again until it
New-York tribune., 1910-07-31

Cancer has already increased 10 such
sn extent that at the present date 1t causes
more deaths among women than does lu-
eberculosis" declares Dr.. William Bradley
Coiey. professor of clinical surgery at
Cornell University Medical School
This dire declaration was not made by
DR. Coley in the course OF an 1nrornaI
jnterview with q representative OF Inc
Tribune, but was made in a carefully pre-
psred thesis delivered the other Gay De-
fore the members of the Southern SurSi-
cal and genealogical Association When
asked for statement concerning the
progress made by physicians in their
l,attle against this dread disease DR.. Coley
refused TO discuss the subject, saying:
physicians will not be interviewed on
that subject for the daily press because
they do not desire needlessly TO alarm the
public"
Although cancer IS one of the Oldest
known diseases of mankind, its great in
crease in recent years appears TO be prac-
.tcsIly coincident with the employment OF
various anti-toxin seruns in the treat
11ent of a large number OF diseases TINS
has led many theorists 10 believe that the
increase in cancer cases is in some way
2 result of the introduction of anti-toxins
Ento the system
Investigators who hold the theory ad-
vanced by Cohnheim generation ago that
cancer is q germ disease, and that II origi-
mates IN the prenatal period Of human
life, hold that If is IN Itself benefcent
growth and that its fatal effects on the
human system are not due TO any poison
ous e1nanations given forth by the growth
stseIf but are caused by degenerscy in
the surrounding tissues. whose circulation
80 he nal hon
fb. cancer growth reaches a period Of de-
.velopraent where II chokes the vascular
tubes. The theory. however, that cancer
is q benefcent growth is not generally
subscribed to by cancer specialists. and
among the iaity 1t is generally regarded
as one of the most malignant and baneful
OF all growths+