Increasing Prevalence of Disease

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 22, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 16.

Increasing Prevalence of Disease

The large increase in the number of deaths in the French army from tuberculosis and typhoid fever has caused the Minister of War to institute a special investigation into the cause of the increasing prevalence of these diseases. Since the treaty of Frankfort 90,000 French soldiers have died from these diseases. A British physician, Dr. C. Templeman, who has made an elaborate study of cancer statistics, has found that the death-rate from this disease has doubled within the last twenty-five years. He declares that cancer is due entirely to a microbe. The increase of these and other diseases is significant of the decrease in the vitality of the race which marks this the last age of the world.