Great Decrease in the Con* sumption Death Rate.

Manawatu Herald, 20 August 1898, Page 3

Great Decrease in the Con* sumption Death Rate.

w STRIKING FIGURES AT QUEEN VICTORIA HOME. The Hon. Dr MacLaurin, in seconding the adoption of the report and balancesheet at the annual meeting of the committee of the Queen Victoria Homes for Consumptives Fund (says the Evening NeMs, of June 28th), gave some interesting statistics with regard to the number of deaths in this colony, from that dread disease consumption. He said that up to ten years ago the number of deaths in N.S. W. from consumption had been increasing considerable. In 1885 there were 1095 deaths due to this cause. For the years .before 1885 consumption had been increasing much more rapidly than the population while now, although the population had increased 50 per cent., the number of deaths was very mnoh 'ess. In 1885 there were27l deaths of young children from consumption. The decrease in deaths from this disorder has attracted attention at home a'so. The Weekly Dispatch, of London, writing on the same matter, says that in 1853 the deaths from consumption in Great Britain were at tne rate of 29 84 per thousand of the population. In 1892 the number had fa len to 10 82 per thousand, or about onethird, and it has not risen since. Still, the insidions malady is far too prevalent, and he who can discover a cure for it will be hailed as a benefactor to the race. It has lately been alleged that a remedy has been found in quite an unexpected quarter, and a Weekly Dispatch Commissioner was deputed to make inquiry. 11 Is it the case that you have a new cure for consumption, and that people have already been restored to health by it?" asked the Weekly Dispatch Commissioner, interviewing the head of a well-known establishment in London. "It is quite true that several persons discharged from various consumption hospitals have been cured lately, and that the faot has been noticed a good deal in the Press," was the reply. " But " (with a quiet smile) "there is nothing new about the remedy. It is Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Palo People. The Dr Williams' Medicine Company has from time to time received intimations that consumptive people in all parts of the world have been cured by | Dr Williams' Pink Pills. But we never make a feature of the cases in our advertis- , ing until lately, for the reason that we ' were afraid lest there should be some mistake in the matter ; and it would be contrary to all our rues to recommend our Pills for any disorder unless we were absolutely sure that they had been proved suitable to it." " What do you mean by fearing some mistake ?" " Well," said the manager, " a mistake could arise in one or two ways. People might suppose that they had been Affected by Consumption, whereas they had suffered from some other cause, such aa blood«spitting from injury to the throat or stomach ; or they might really have been consumptive, and, having got a little better, imagined themselves cured when they were not really so. But recently— that is to say, within the last year or two — we have had under our observation cases in which consumption undoubtedly did exist, where the patients had been examined and certified as consumptive at various hospitals and in other official whys. Those people were 'ed to use Dr Williams' Pink Pills, and, as a result, after a lime they were proved to be cured. This led us to make the facts public, and thay have been taken up and reported upon by a number of newspapers by our request. That is th? whole story. You boo there is nothing very striking about it." '•Not very; it is simply an exceptiona 1 record of an honest hesitation sucessful'y removad." " I don't know that there is anything exceptional about it, thought it's very kind of you to say so: What baa happened in the case of the disease consumption, or phthsis, is what has happened with a number of other diseases which aye incurable by ordinary medicine, but which are cured, as published evidence 9hows, by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills" " What diseases do you refer to ?" " Oh, locomotor ataxy, and other form? of paralysis, for example ; spina 1 diseases, cystitis (a disorder of the bladder), some forms of anaemia, and somo disorders special to women. We were some years before we published our first case of locomotov ataxy, although we had several caßPs cured in the interval. We wished to see if The Cube was Permanent, i because the man had been paid deaths dues amounting to over £200 by an insurance company, on the certificate of medical specialists that he was absolutely incurable and could not live. This is Mr Marshall, and he is well and strong to-day thanks to Dr Williams' Pink Pills. "Another instance is Mr Robertson,, a well-known Scottish football player. He substained an injury which culminated in spinal disease, with a huge growth on the back. He was discharged from the Glasgow Infirmary Hospital as incurable nnd went home to die. His mother spent £150 trying, to get him cured. He was cured in a very short time when he began to take Dr Williams' Pink PiUs, and can play football as well as ever. He is a formidable chap in the field, I can tell you! " Then there is the case of Mr George Bi'ton, who was paid his death dues by a Friendly Society — the Boiler Makers — as totally and permanently disabled by cys'itis or inflammatory catarrh of the bladder; certified as pratically dead by three doctors. He was cured by Dr Williams Pink Pill i we waited MOBE THAN A YEAR . before publishing hi 3 case in our book. He had lain paralys d for more than two years, and al c o suffered frightful agony from rhenmatism, before he u«ed the Pills ; but our pills have made him a strong man without a ache, in his body, and he walks enormous dis anoes. The same doctors who certifi d his dischnrge as incurable have certified him cired and fit for work, and the trade sooiety actually re-addroitted him — an unique case." " The object of this is to show the permanency of the cures you effect." " Excuse me ; it is Dr Williams' Pink Pills that effeot the cures. We don't doctor people. We will not even examine or see them at, our offic 0 . But if w*' are written to (and we are always pleas'd to have sick people write to v* as fully a c poB^iblo). we wil' tell them frankly whether ; capes like theirs have been cured by Dr [ William ' Pills or not. If we do not think ' the Pills suitab'e we nay fo, because out ' j business is built up entirely by the reconv > mendation of people who have used oui

tills and foutia benefit, from them. We have such a large trade lha ; real y, tnc sale of a box mot* , or a hundred boxes more, ia uot to be compared in importane , with ihe record which we hold for fair and c ndid deal ngs. We do not fear any investigation : and that is how wo h »ye so many good f ien is among Educated People and the Clerot. who know we deal honesrly with he public. As an ex imple, Dr Will arns' Pink Pills cured Of spinal d sease a girl of Glasgow. Her name ia Miss B 11, and she Wft* actually visit d by * clergyman, in order to prepare hr for death. When she was cured, more than three years ago the clergyman wrot- to us abqut it, &< d he is kind enough to write to us from time to time, telling us how the girl is getting on. His name is the Rev r amuel HardiDg, of 1 Firbank Terrace, pennistoun, Glasgow. The girl is and remain^ perfectly well and strong. • But,"— with another quiet smile—" I fancy we are getting rather far away from the subject of consumption, and my time is rather limited." " Well, about consumption then. I always supposed that consumption was absolutely fatal/ "So it is if it gets to the final stage, though we have been told by people even far advanced in consumption that they have pulled up strength wonderfully by using Dr Williams' Pi»k Pills. But in some stages, even when specialist and hospitals can only offer palliative treatment, and try to delay the inevitable, we have good evidence that Dr Williams' Pink Pills have actually effeoted cures." The manger cited the following, among other cases : — " Mr F. Joyc*, of 5 B: own's Buildines, West Pottergate-atreet, Norwich, raised phlegm every morning which was streaked with blood ; his face was blanched and he lost weight. His breathing was short and painful, and Mr Joyce's apprehensions were increased by the fact that His Father had Died of Consumption. He went to two doctors. Then one morning, to use his own words. ' I looked in the Norwich, Eastern Daily Press, and there I saw a case of a consumptive young man who had been spitting up blood like myself, and having night sweats, who was cured and restored to robust health and strength by Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. I procured a box of these pills myself, and followed the direct : ons as to taking them, with the result that after taking the contents of three boxes I felt as well as I ever did in my life.' But while f cling so well, Mr Joyce still had an uncomfortable impression that he was still in consumption, so he submitted himself for examination at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. The Doctobs of that Great Institution declared him 16 be in a sound state of health, and refused to supply him with any medicine or enter hioi upon the books, as he had no need of treatment." Dr Williams' Pink Pills are not like other medicine* nor can they be imitated as is sometimes dishonestly pretended ; take care that that the package bears the full name, Dr Williams' Pink Piil3 for Pale People, printed in red on the white outside wrapper • otherwise you are being cheated by a worthless imitation ; in case of doubt send direct to Dr Williams' Mcd cine Company Wellington, N.Z., as the Pills 'can be had, post free, at 3s. per box, or six boxes for 16?. 6d.