The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-12-05
Sixteen Thousand Lives Annually
Could Be Saved by Cam
paign Of Education
STARTLING FACTS BY EXPERT
Nearly 100000 Cases Each Year
Could Be Prevented
DEATH RATE IS VERY HIGH

New York. Dec. 5.--One hundred
and seventy five thousand cases OF
| typhoid fever annually in this coun
| Try could be prevented by a campaign
OF education with an annual saving OF
1920 lives is the opinion of DR. AL
Ian j, Mclaughlin In the United
| States public health service, voiced
today in an address before the sixth
annual convention of the Association
CT Life Insurance presidents In New
York. DR., Mclaughlin declared
/, That the economic loss caused by
typhoid fever in this country is $780,
100000 a year:
That in so of the largest American
cities the typhoid fever death rate av-
eraged 25 persons per 100000 popula-
ton as against Sc persons per 100, 600
population for 33 leading cities OF
| Northern Europe.
That i'm 1909 there were more cases
of plague In India.
That every case of typhoid fever
| was uut to Sofhepouy y lBHoTdHCt of
| carelessness.
Typhoid is Disastrous.
In part DR.. Mclaughlin said:
Twenty deaths per 100000 prob
ably represent two hundred cases of
typhoid fever. Suppose 200 cases of
Asiatic cholera occurred in any Amer
lean city of 10000 population. Would
4 ctr t.1 It~r
for the eradication of the scourge?
Although the mortality rate OF typhoid
fever IS transmssible in more ways,
Is more expensive in its lingering
course, ana more disastrous in its Sc
uuels than Asiatic cholera.
THE mental attitude toward ty-
phoid fever displayed by army physi-
clans and especially health officers Is
scarcely more commenda Bile. Their
complacency i'm the face of typhoid
fever rates above twenty deaths an
nually per 100000 population. is diff
cult To explain. II the rate Is below
twenty many municipal officials are
inclined to be satisfied with this rate.
as 1t is low compared with less for
tunate cities"
DR.. Mclaughlin then compared the
typhoid fever death rate of fifteen
large northern European cities with
fifteen of the largest American cities
in 1910 as follows: European cities
Edinburgh. l3 per 100000; Munich
Ia; Stockholm lS: Dresden 2.2: Ant
werp 2.3; Berlin 90; London 3.3 CO.
penhagen SO: Vienna 3.S; Liverpool
80; Belfast 80; Birmingham 80;
Hamburg Al: Lyons A. Paris 5.6
American cities-Cinc innati SS per
100000; Boston 1l.3; Jersey City l1.5
New York ia: Newark l3.l: Chicago
1871; st. Louis 14.9: Philadelphia 17.5,
Cleveland l79; Buffalo 200: Detroit
$50; Washington 23.2; Pittsburgh
27s; Milwaukee 457; Minneapolis
5s7.
Fewer Plague Cases.
In 1909 there were more cases of
typhoid fever i'm the United States
| than there were causes of plague in
India, In spite of the fact that India's
population is tw oand one half times
that of the United States" said DR..
Mclaughlin. From January. 1907. 10
october. 1911, there occurred In Rus
sia. 2S364S cases of Asiatic cholera.
This included the appalling epidemic
Of 1910. According TO conservative
estimate there occurred in the United
States during the same period one
million and a quarter cases of typhoid
fever, or more than four cases of
typhoid fever I'm the United States for