Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-03-06 | Page 1 | Life Span Doubles but Cancer Deaths Increase, Experts Say

Life Span Doubles but Cancer D Deaths Experts Say SayMan SayMan Man Averages Over 60 Years Now Cancer Kills in NEW YORK March 5 AP Two views one optimistic and the other I the adv adverse were made public in separate statements today casting light on American matters of ife and death S The Th average duration ot life In New York City has been been almost doubled since 1800 or within the existence ot of the College ot of clans and Surgeons of Columbia university uni- uni said one announcement The other saId the deaths from can cancer er In the United States as a whole have advanced from 63 per ot of population In 1900 to in 1924 i Yellow fever malaria typhus cholera smallpox kill no more In OUr cit city Dr Haven Emerson professor pro pro- lessor fessor of public health admInistration tion at Columbia said Typhoid and diphtheria will follow LIFE SPAN GREATER The life span ot of the average New Yorker which was over thirty years before 1800 extends to an average ot of more than sixty years at present The Infants dying In their first year ot of life now number 63 In the 1000 instead pf ot and tuberculosis kills ItS its' 93 Instead of 4 40 In every of our population each year ear Dr George A. A Soper managing director of the American Society for the Control ot of Can Cancer er s speaking at the society's annual meeting today today to- to day said Although It has never been the society's policy to frighten the people pee peo- pIe about cancer i n is is' is necessary to face the fact that the disease Is In- In creasing It has advanced from sIxth to fourth place among leading leading lead lead- ing causes ot of death in the continental tal States being pre preceded eded only by heart disease pneumonia and cerebral hemorrhage and softening soft soft- of t ening of the brain ARE DEAD The total number of c cancer n er- er deaths reported for tor the year was roundly and more than are suffering from the disease at the present timeS present time Leadership In the field ot of cancer prevention and cure Is needed as never before because public inter inter- it c-it t in Ia cancer increased so rapidly rapidly- during the past few years to encourage encourage en- en courage a horde ot of quacks an anci quack institutions There are more quacks today than ever and th thare thare are mOre dangerous The time IS about past when cancer cures are sold over the drug store counter or from the tall tail of a cart on Saturday night in the village square square or gh paid newspaper advertise advertise- ments The modern modem quack advertise I Is an entirely entirely en- en ent business man