Increase of Cancer

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 16, 1901

Increase of Cancer.

Mortality statistics clearly show that cancerous affections are increasing, and especially among what are considered the most civilized peoples. In England the increase has been from 38.5 deaths from cancer in 1864 to 100,000 population, to 75.5 deaths from the same disease to 100,000 population in 1895, almost doubling in thirty-one years. On the same basis of calculation, the death rate from cancer in San Francisco springs from 16.5 persons in 1866 to 103.6 persons in 1898. Boston almost trebles its ratio in twenty-four years. The seven largest cities of America, exclusive of Chicago, in twenty-eight years double their rate. How much of this is due to flesh-eating is a question worthy of consideration.