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WHAT IS KNOWN ABOUT CANCER.

WHY AND WHEN IT IS CURABLE.

[BY WILLIAM ROBERTSON, M.D., D.P.H. (M.Q.H.) FOR" EDINBURGH.}"

There is evidence to prove that in certain parts of the world and in some localities enneer is either stationary or actually diminishing. The death rate from cancer in Edin

the past six years.

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Cancer has been long recognised a disease peculiarta chimney sweeps in this country of account of the friction and irritation caused by the sooty particles This particular type of disease could be avoided.

BOY DEFIES POLICE FOR

FIVE HOURS...

KILLED IN A MACHINE GUN BATTLE.

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NINE MEN WOUNDED,

Chicago, Wednesday, December, 12th :-A sixteen-year-old negro boy. Ernest Whithurst, to-day held at bay eighty-five policemen, who besieged him in a two-storey house till he fell with fourteen ballet wounds in his body. Nine police men were wounded.

He defed machine guns, tear gas

3,258.845.29 6.33 847 burgh has been stationary during { if 'the body were regularly washed bombs, shot guns and revolvers för |

to remove the irritation and to keep five hours, in the most exciting the skin healthy and active, as is battle between police and criminal hearing more about this disease be systematically done in Germany, that Chicago has known for a long

where chimney sweeps' cancer is time. uncommon,

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cause people are living to more ad- ¦ vanced ages than they formerly did. The statistics for England and Wales do not completely bear out that line of argument.

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A striking feature of cancer is its distribution. Switzerland, Holland, and Scotland stand highest on the list with respective death rates of 124.3 106.4, and 103.0" per 100,000 of their populations. For England and Wales the figure is 91.6, and for Ireland 81. Japan yields figure of 64.3. Chili is lowest with 35.8.

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The youth was pursued by the police for an offence, and on their approach barricaded himself in his sister-in-law's house, and open- ed, fire on the police with rifle and revolver.

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were brought to the scene to act as armour for the attackers, while whole guns and revolvers, with eases of armoury of machine guns; shot tear gas bombe, were requisitioned for the use of the police.

True, the highest death rates were

Seventeen squads of five police- recorded between the age periods

men were summoned to the scene, 65-75 and 75-85, but among those over eighty-five the figures showed

led by deputy commissioners of police, as well as detectives. They a drop..

No doubt the numbers:

immediately began to build barri living after the age of eighty are Among the principal cities of the cades across the adjoining streets. comparatively small, but with a world Copenhagen stands highest They commandeered all sorts of smaller population a big incidence with a rate of 161.3 per 100,000 of household.

from the requisites

Furni | should reveal a relatively high death its population. Berlin comes next.homes of other negroes.

Landon is fifth as the list with 111.7, ture, dressers, washing machines. What Is The Cause Of Cancer?

Glasgow's figure being 1021. New and other utensils were used to York's figure is 77.1. Lowest on give shelter to the besiegers. Many theories have been advanced the list is Constantinople with a Steel plates even to account for cancer, or as it is rate of only 11.7 per 100,000. sometimes called, malignant disease.

Rate Of Increase. those need not be discussed because they cover a wide range of supposidants from cancer in English cities Between the years 1881-1914 the tion. Each discoverer of a "cause" is firmly convinced that his theory is rose from fifty-eight to 100 per the only sound one.

If n parti. 100,000. The dentha from cancer of cular parasite is the exciting cause the stomach and liver were higher only a few athorities out of the in Scotland than they were in Eng many who have searched for the land and Wales, whereas the deaths "conclusive evidence have been from malignant disease of able to lay it bare..

female generative organs were con siderably higher in England and It is generally found that irrita- Wales than they were in Scotland tion is the starting off ground for In America the cancer ostality is cancer. No more outstanding ex-higher among the white than it is ample could be quoted than the con-among the coloured races. dition excited by the use of X-rays. Martyrs to attacks of dermatitis (which may develop into ĉancerous- There is little to support the po like activity) caused by powerful pular belief that certain houses or X-rays have not been uncommon. It buildings are more prone to incite is equally striking that the self cancer than others. Heredity is be- same rays that can excite a can-lieved to play no small part in the cerous condition have been employ transmission of cancer in families. cd. with varying success, to cure It is highly probable, therefore, that malignant disease.

the term cancer families could be more aptly used than that of cancer houses.

Heat Irritation.

Cancer Houses,

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Ultimately, after five hours of bombardment, John Stege, deputy commissioner of detectives, Chief Detective John Egan and Sergeant door of the house, from which Tom Conley made their way to the Whithurst bad held them at bay

They went to the room which Whithurst was defending.

The door was opened by Mary Whit- hurst, his sister, while the youth stood in a cupboard behind her, aiming a shotgun at the head of the deputy commissioner.

Sergeant Conley shot him with a rifle before he could pull the trig ger, and then, rushing into the room, fired another bullet into Whithurst's head. Whithurst died in hospital an hour later, and an inquest revealed that he had four. teen wounds in his body.

One of the wounded policemen, Sergeant Fred Joyner, is likely to lose his might in consequence of a bullet wound on the left side of Whithurat's sister-in-

In Thibet it is a custom, during the winter, for the women especial-

Likewise in certain places where ly, to carry earthenware body cancer has been known to show an warmers under their clothing. These abnormal number of cases it is likely vessels, filled with hot fuel, are sur.that inter-marriage between cancer his head. rounded by basket-like recentacles tainted families may have been more law and her three children remain- to protect the skin. Nevertheless, common than in larger and more ed in the house throughout the malignant disease not infrequently populous districts. attacks these women on account of i the devitalising of the skin by the long-continued heat irritation and

its close contact.

Those who suffer from cancer of the stomach have invariably been martyrs to acid dyspepsin (heart burn) for many years, the excess of acid in the stomach providing long continued irritation. Cancer of the tongue is usually traced to a small

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abrasion kept in a state of irritation by the sharp edges of a ragged tooth or by a pipe stem from which pangent smoke or tobacco juice has played on the wounded sur- face."

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Is There A Cure?

Quite apart from the employment of radium and X-rays most autho- rities agree that early detection of the disense and its immediate re- moval offer the best present known means for the reduction of the death-rate from cancer.

The facilities for diagnosis are now available and skilled people competent to deal with the carly recognition and treatment of the malady are many.

battle without being injured.

those who submit themselves for examination at an early stage of the infliction may be confident that their lives can be prolonged by early operative procedure.

"I Americs and in Germany special clinics for the early recog nition and immediate treatment of the discase have been successfully established. This country lugs be- hind, mainly because we have been afraid to tell the people the real There is no cause for alarm. The truth, which is that cancer is curable reverse is in fact the case, since if it is recognised and dealt with in,

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The Week's Coming Events.

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(January 10th.) Hockey: Y.M.C.A. 2nd XI. . University 2nd XI., King's Park, 5

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The Recreio Amateur Players: "What Happened to Jones," Star Theatre, 9.15 pm.

Queen's Theatre: The Way. of all Flesh"

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