GREAT DECREASE IN TH£ CON SUMPTION DEATH RATE.

Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 324, 6 August 1898, Page 4

GREAT DECREASE IN TH£ CON SUMPTION DEATH RATE.

STRIKING FIGURES AT THK QUEEN VICTORIA HOMP. Tnrc Hon. Dr MacL*urin, in seconding the adoption of the report and balancesheet lit the annual meeting of the committee of the Queen Victoria Homes for Consumptive.! Fund (says the Evening News, "of June 28th), gave some interesting statistics with regard to the number of deaths in this colony from that dread disease, consumption. Ho suid that up to ten years ago the number of deaths in N.S.W. from consumption had been increasing considerably.' In 1885 there were 1095 deaths due to this cause. For tho years before 1885 consumption had been increasing much more rapidly than the population, while now, although the population has increased 50 per cent., the number of deaths was very much less. In 1885 there were 271 deaths of young children from consumption. Tho decreasein deatbsfrom this disorder has attracted attention at home also. The Weekly Dispatch, of London, writing on the same matter, says that in 1853 the deaths from consumption in Great Britain were at the rate of 29 84 per thousand of the population. In 1892 the number had fallen to 10S2 per thousand, or about one third, and it has not risen since. Still, the insidious malady is far too prevalent, and he who oan 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 quit 3 an unexpected quarter, and a Weekly Dispatch Commissioner was deputed to make inquiry. " Is it the case that you have a now 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. 4 It is quite true that several persons discharged" from various consumption hospitals have been cured lately, and that the fact 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 Pale People. The Dr Williams' Medicine Company has from time to time received intimatijns that consumptive people in all parts of the world have been cured' by Dr Williams' Pink Pills. But we never made a feature of the cases in • our advertising until lately, for the reason that iwe were afraid lest there should be some mistake in the matter ; and it would be contrary to all our rules to recommend our Pills for any disorder unless we were absolutely sure that thoy 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 as 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—wo 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 ways. Those people were led to use Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and, as a result, after a time they were proved to be cured. This led us to make the facts public, and they have been taken up. and reported upon by a number of newspapers by our request. That is the whole story. You see there is nothing very striking about it." "Not very; it is simply an exceptional record of an honest hesitation successfully removed." " I don't know that there is anything exceptional about it, though it's very kind of you to say so. What has happened in the case of the disease consumption, or phthsis, is what has happened with a number of other diseases which are incurable by- ordinary medicine, but which are cured, as published evidence shows, by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills." " What diseases do you refer to?" " Oh, locomotor ataxy, and other forms of paralysis, for example , spinal disease, cystitis (a disorder of the bladder), some forms of anaemia, and some disorders special to women. We were some years before we published our first case of locomotor ataxy, although we had reports of several cases cured in the interval. We wished to see if THE CUKE WAS PERMANENT, because the man had been paid death dues amounting to over £2OO 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 sustained an injury which culminated in spinal disease, with a huge growth on the back. He was discharged from the Glasgow Infirmary Hospital as incurable, and went home to die. His mother spent £l5O trying to get him cured. He was cured in a very short time when he began to take Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, 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 Bilton, who was paid his death dues by a Friendly Society—the Boiler Makers—as totally and permanently disabled by cystitis, or inflammatory catarrh of the bladder ; certified as practically dead by three doctors. He was cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills ; we waited MORE THAN A YEAK before publishing his case in our book. He had lain paralysed for more than two years, and also suffered frightful agony from rheumatism, before ho used the Pills ; but our pills have made him a strong man without an ache in his body, and he walks enormous distances. The same doctors who certified his discharge as incurable have certified him cured and fit for work, and the trade society actually re-admitted 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 efl'ect the cures. We don't doctor people. We will not even examine or see them at our office. But if we arc written to (and we are always ■ pleased to have sick people write to us as fully as possible), we will tell them frankly whether cases like theirs have been cured by Dr. Williams' Tills or not. If we do not think the Tills suitable, we say so, because our business is built up entirely by the rocommendation of peoplo who havo used our Fills and found benefit from them. We have such a large trado that, really, the sale of a box more, or a hundred boxes more, is not to be compared in importance with the record which we hold for fair and candid dealings. We do not fear any investigation ; and that is how it is wc have so many good friends among EDUCATED PEOPLE A.ND THE CLERGY, who know we deal honestly with the public. As an example, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cured of spinal disease a girl of Glasgow. Her name is Miss Bell, and she ■was actually visited by a clergyman, in order to prepare her for death. When she was cured, more than three years ago the clergyman wrote to us about it, and he is kind enough to write to us from time to time, telling us how tho girl is getting on. His name is tho Rev. Samuel Harding, of 7 Firbauk Terrace, Dennistoun, Glasgow. The girl is, and remains, perfectly well and strong. «< ]jut,"—with another quiet smile—" I fancy wo are getting rather far away from the subject of consumption, and my time ie rather, limited."

" Well, aboiuVcommmption then. I am ways supposed that consumption was alabsolutelv fatal." "So it is if it gets to the final stage, though wc have been told by people even far advanced in consumption that they have pulled up strength wonderfully by using Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. But in some' etages, even when specialists and hospitals 'c.'in only offer palbativo treatment, and try to delay the inevitable, wo havo good 'evidence that Dr' Williams Pink Pills have actually effected cures." The manager cited the following, amonur other casses : " Mr. F. Joyce, of 5 Brown's Buildings, West Pottergatc-streot, Norwich, raised phlegm everv 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 COMSUMI'TION 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. 1 procured a box of these pills myself, and followed tho directions 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 feeling 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 DOCTORS OF THAT GREAT INSTITUTION. declared him to be in a sound state of health, and refused to supply him with any medicine or enter him upon the books, as he had no need of treatment Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are Jot like other medicine, nor can they be imitated as is sometimes dishonestly pretended; take cure that the package bears the full name, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills f " r Pale People, printed in red On the wh ltc outside wrapper; otherwise you a beinsr cheated by a worthless imitation > in case of doubt tend direct to Dr Williams' Medicine Company, Wellington, N.Z., as the Pills can bo had, post free, at 03. per box, or six bcxes for J6sGd.