The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-11-11
1900 DEATHS
IN STATEFR0
CANCER YEARLY
DIR. w n. MccLAIN GIVES STATS
TICS AT PRELIMINARY MEET.
ING FOR CANCER WEEK
IN Y. M. c. A.
ONE HUNDRED WHEELING RESI-.
DENTS ARE CLAIMED EVERY
YEAR BY THE SAME DREAD
MALAOY. HE SHOWS.

Eighteen hundred persons are
claimed by cancer in West Virginia
every year. and In Greater Wheeling
100 deaths annually arc attributed 10
the dread maIadv.
This startling statement was made
last might by DR. W. II. McClain In
connection with tn" opening OF Can
cor week in the United States begin
min. Sunday. at a preliminary meet
inc in the y. NJ. &. 4. last night.
F.i-ht Of the leading surgeons and
physicians in the county. all members
Of the ohio County Medical associa-
ton. under WHOSE direction the, ses-
sion Was held, spoke on the ravages
ui the disease, its symptoms and Its
cure.
THROUGH the addresses sounded the
warning and 4 note Of hope that II
competent medical attention IS pro.
cured i'm time a cure can be effected.
The men who spuk" were: Drs. W. II.
NrGlaiu. Jacob Schwinn. II. VI. Hall.
f.. l.. Hump. u. NJ. Altman, A. X. lioge,
q. n. Mccoy and Charles Clovis.
About two hundred men and women
comprised The audience, and the
speakers held its attention through
oft the evening. 1t was pointed 'out
that $4,000 persons dic>of the disease
every year in the United States, and
that its spread has been on the in
crease without its being brought to
n" public mind
For the last few decades, since the
danger of the situation was realized,
it has been determined that the num-
Der Of persons afflicted with the dis
case has increased - per cent.
It's 10 check the growth by attack
ing the source that is motivating the
surgeons and physicians throughout
the nation 10 seek to educate the pub
lie Of its fatal proNensities.
Dr. Hupp Presided.
Dr. r. l.. Hupp presided at the meet
ing last night and his brief opening
Was comprehensive in its critical
analysis of the purpose of the educa-
riOnrl week in Wheeling and the rest
OF the nation
Since education will result In the
saving Of countless perSns from can,
Ger that education must be under.
taken and accomplished. he said.
Tn" audience was plainly impressed
as the various speakers went into de-
vailed discussion OF the disease and It
va evident thar wh'rr the men and
women il IN" auditorium were what
would h" termed OF more than aver
age intelligence they TOO were I'm
pressed ny the continued recitation OF
statistics which hrouGh, out the per
ncious inception and growth OF the
maiady.
Boy Scouts to Aid
Tn" Boy Scouts Of the Wheeling
area have pledged their support 10 the
medical men and Sunday morning
they will distribute pamphlets al the
churches III the city.
.a.t night in me EOff Street Tenn
rI" Rabbi Lola spoke 10 his parishion-
rGs on the n"roSSiIy Of cooperating
with tho movement here and he
stretched Nividly his experiences with
III, disease by telling Of persons he
HId known who were afflicted with It.
An intensive campaign ot publicity
Will ho opt@rd' in connection with the
week.. : activity and 1t is believed tina;
public sentiment will be- aroused 10
The necessity Of meeting the menace
of cancer by prompt attention 10 the
earliest symptoms.