Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 26, 1919, Page 10

a ee te ee i A, ee te et ¢ Bx ¥ Rs : eh: S¢ : ° rr 99 & 3 P< >¢ Be ° $4 % a k3 Ds % k3 B $ Ks ; 5s ° wae e iJ e eo e eo $ Are Physicians Six Times More Dangerous Than War, Six Times 54 < 3 e e e & + More Helpless Than Disease or Six Times More $ £3 ee y 7 y 3 = Useless Than Medicine? $ Re . ; ¢ “° AANA 4 ~~ e le + Plague Took Six Times As Many As Guns AN APPALLING DEATH TOLL : ae k3 $8 D iled oe » The American people stand aghast at the announcement that in but little % Be Fig LEAS Comp il z Show 254 Deaths Ar é P. hysicians H op e- more than two months’ time the appalling toll of 400,000 lives has been taken 3 o From Flu Since October 1. less With Acute by the epidemic of influenza and its complications. One of the chief elements of % * Spanish influenza took over six times as many Davenport lives as did all 5 5 the horror of war is its dreadful cost in human life, but the fatalities of this Kg & the devlish devices of the bloody Huns. The same proportion applies in Omaha Diseases: greatest of wars inflicted upon America shrink into insignificance by comparison y oe and vicinity. with the ghastly work of this disease. Approximately 60,000 Americans gave their 4 & ; Poison ae scattering shrapnel and tee snipers deadly, rife ie BIAys lives to the cause of freedom, and of these a large percentage yielded to the pre- 5% $ shingsicome: esi cj Pape ue nich) visited|soimany,aavenbortnomesianci wi Who Failed to Cure vailing epidemic; but statistics already available indicate that of civilians alone Z a 400,000 were swept away by the influenza and the pneumonia which was its bg & ,__ Statistics compiled in The Demectat office show ghee since Oct. 1 the flu the Acute and Let legacy. When the mortality statistics of the world are compiled, if ever, the rev- Ry + claimed 254 Davenport lives. This includes the report for Monday. Them Become elation of the total ravages of this disease will be staggering. y< eo WAR DEATHS UNDER 40 ns According to the gold stars on the municipal service flag, which speak for Chronic? Prophylactic science has made vast strides in the past few years. The pro- SY Re the fallen Davenport soldiers, there were less than 40 local heroes killed on the G gress of the knowledge of bacteriology has been marvelous. Sanitation and hy- iY + battleheldsict France in the year and more that the Yanks were engaged in ac- giene have raised great barriers against the advance of contagion and infection. Ss As compared to the record of influenza deaths for the past two and one- Do Ch ron fe Cases Yet with these forces of enlightenment in full play for defense, disease breaks in oe a half months in Davenport, the figures show that the plague took more than six and in a brief time does ten times the destruction of war. It is little short of o Y times as many lives.—The Davenport Democrat and Leader, December 24, 1918. Live On in Spite terrifying. RS & : 3 : ; ‘ & Influenza Reached Fifth of Fighters in United States of, Not Because It is not difficult to appreciate the deadly sweep of the plague and pesti- Sy y Chicago, Dec. 9.—Approximately one out. of five soldiers in the United | Pe, lence in the earlier day when the preventive science had not spread its blessings ay y States suffered from influenza during the epidemic; of these, one in six developed of Physicians? on the human pathway; but it is positively appalling to realize that in this age 3 ey pneumonia and of the pneumonia patients, two out of five died. ; of advanced hygienic and prophylactic methods we stand so relatively helpless i ae This statement was made by Dr. George A. Soper of the United States before the attack of the destroyers.—Editorial, St. Paul (Minn.), Dispatch, De- Re ee surgeon general’s staff in today’s issue of the Journal of the American Medical cember 5, 1918. 93 $ pssccistion = associated) Eress/Report, sa + x e ] , k3 : P d Positive Proof ed ¢ ungent an ositive Proo : RX War was declared in April 1917. The armistice signed November 11, 1918. (Duration of war, 19 months.) eS $ 63 The “Flu” Flurry began about October Ist. Its end was definitely in sight December 25, 1918. (Duration less than 4 months. ) a Be : Since the last named date we have been compiling Medical Osteopathic and Chiropractic statistics ( covering between those dates. ¥ 3 ‘ $ ee “ b 9 O eure ° . ° 9 AS ° 3 ba are as follows: agen United States Osteopathic Statistics | National Chiropractic Statistics, Excluding |% & avenport, Ia., Statistics 3 x PONG AS ' NUMBER OF OSTEOPATHS ............... 344 , Davenport and Iowa 3 | NUMBER OF “REGULAR” PHYSICIANS ......... 50 NUMBER OF CASES UNDER OSTEOPATHIC 10 141 613 & of | TREATMENT, . 2000 ho econ ee ) E NUMBER OF CHIROPRACTORS ........... my % | “% NUMBER OF CASES UNDER MEDICAL CARE. . 4,953 80 28 946 é NS NUMBER OF DEATHS ................... CASES UNDER TREATMENT .............. 9 ° .> oe MEDICAL DEATHS ..................0000 05 274 ; f pee 34 x ~ Iowa Chiropractic Statistics} NUMBER OF DEATHS .................... x BOC 1 o ge & oe Excluding Davenport Total Statistics é oe < BS NUMBER DAVENPORT CHIROPRACTORS 150 1 KK + (Including Students and Faculty) .......... NUMBER OF CHIROPRACTORS ........... 02 NUMBER OF CHIROPRACTORS ...... ‘ 865 Re % NUMBER OF CASES UNDER CHIROPRACTIC i & + ADJUSTMENT =). 2 occ ticie ccs tees tec ee 1,633 CASES UNDER TREATMENT .............. 4,735 MOTAELCASES iit a ate eke, eee 35,014 $ x7 - Xd + CHIROPRACTIC DEATHS ................... 1 NUMBER OF DEATHS .................... 6 TOTAL CHIROPRACTIC DEATHS .......... 41 $ “ + The Davenport Medical Death Ratio is 1 to 18 Cases or 5 5-9 Per Cent. The Iowa Chiropractic Death Ratio is 1 to 789 Cases or -00127, or 1-8 of 1 Per Cent. * a | The American Osteopathic Association Death Ratio is 1 to 127 Cases or .0087, or 4-5 of 1 Per Cent. The United States Chiropractic Death Ratio, Excluding lowa, is 1 to 851 Cases, or .00117, or Ny ote | The Palmer School of Chiropractic Death Ratio is 1 to 1,633 Cases, or .000612, or 3-50 of 1 1-9 of 1 Per Cent. & aoe | Per Cent. The Grand National Chiropractic Death Ratio is 1 to 886 Cases, or .00119, or 1-9 of 1 Per Cent. $ b3 f ‘ % ° © ° 3 3, | (Osteopathic Figures Compiled C I ; Ge PS onvincing Conclusions : y ducted by The Osteopathic As- When you read the above, you wonder about this boasted education of If 7,200,000 people in the U. S. had “Flu,” and Chiropractors could + ~ sociation. ) physicians; how much they know; how much power they want to control pecple have adjusted these 7,200,000 people; and, the Chiropractic death rate is 1 og & with, Not being satisfied with being uselesss in the face of the “Flu” they try to to 886; then only 8,352 should have died, not 400,000. é oo 2 drive Chiropractors into the same useless educational channels, claiming that we & $3 can’t do anything until we know everything they were taught; that we can’t be Our reports are from 865 Chiropractors, 17 times as many as the 50 phy- C3 3 competent Chiropractors until we have been taught the THEORY and PRACTICE sicians of Davenport, lowa, who had a death list of 274 cases, which is almost 6 Se of MEDICINE. That man is BEST educated who is:MOST useful. 7 times as many as the 865 Chiropractors. ¥ Re War is primarily intended TO TAKE life. Physicians are taught (?) how Our reports further show 35,314 cases with a death rate of 41 cases as 3 3 (?) to SAVE (7?) life. When they stand helplessly by and see “SIX TIMES AS compared with the physicians’ death list of 274 with 4,953 cases. We have to 3 5% MANY” die at THEIR hands as died under war; should they not then be record- our credit 17 times as many practitioners; 7 times as many cases with the M. ¢ a ed as eltinees © dangerous as war? When CBiopin tes reduce that record; D.’s having 46 1-2 times as many deaths in proportion. 4 Bo away low the pale of the record of war, then we become a USEFUL member . + s A ” & of society WHETHER WE STUDY subject for subject, hour for hour, the same many conor tng same basis, the Chiropractors would be entitled to 17 times as * o as medicine or not; and, WHATEVER we study no matter how long or how in 13 aanae? * rd t . ack thai ae the Davenport medical ratie’ is 1 death é RS ve short that time, it PROVES ITSELF USEFUL IN SAVING LIFE. - ie Grorti ce concn cue aeath|rate/of/274 cases: é + nia in CNET 400,000 people in the U. S. have died of “Flu” under medical care; = cee of these positive, provable figures, let us ask: $ “a 0 . ‘. | this in spite of the fact that they have practically had military control of cities ould “regular” medical men be gi % & Figures compiled by, printed | with their bans on business people compelled to wear masks, quarantines on some they already have? given MORE wayes or bo) shorn of é b3 in and passed out as a compli- homes, vaccines, etc., etc. 5 i, y ment from The Palmer School Should Chiropractors be given Greater LIBERTY to decrease the death x ¥ of Chiropractic Printing Plant At the Davenport rate of 1 death to 18 cases (which statisticians admit rate and increase the living rate? % < = Pras 5 | is very low) this would mean 7,200,000 people were sick in the U.S. . 5 5 : A a “Chiropractic Fountain Head,” | pea e woe ee pa ae pie Is Medical education RIGHT, irrespective of HOW LONG it takes? ¢ , U.S.A. e iropractic ratio o: eath to ju cases, adjus' ry . 5 5 + Davenport slow a,.U25 | Chiropractors, it means they could have attended 35,440,000 of people before Is Chiropractic education CORRECT, even though it is shorter IN TIME? x x | they would have reached the same national death rate of 400,000. HOW DO FIGURES PROVE THE ANSWERS? » .3 geese oo - ~ - ° & ‘ % & p< + e ° ° 9 e + 9 4 ; CHIROPRACTORS : : Lyric Theater Bldg.Telephone 706 Graduates of the Palmer School of Chiropractic CASPER, WYO Ba i ee ee ee ee