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THE DAILY CA PITAL JOURNAL. SALEM. OREGON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14. 1919. PAGE FIVE Tl 1 r,. if r3 lift 51 i T CPU Tl TrcS ARE PHYSICIANS SIX TIMES MORE DANGEROUS THAN WAR, SIX TIMES MORE HELPLESS THAN DISEASE OR SIX TIMES MORE USELESS THAN MEDICINE? PLAGUE TOOK SIX TIMES AS MANY AS GUNS FIGURES COMPILED SHOW 254 DEATHS FROM FLU SINCE OCTOBER 1ST. Spanish influenza took over six times as many Davenport lives as did all the devlish de vices of the bloody Hun. Poison gas, scattering shrapnel and the sniper's deadly rifle were playthings compared to the plague which visited so many Davenport homes and with such terribble results. Statistics compiled in The Democrat office show that Since October 1, the flu claimed 254 Davenport lives. This includes the report for Monday. WAR DEATHS UNDER FORTY. , According to the gold stars on the municipal service flag, which speak for the fallen Dav enport soldiers, there were less than 40 local heroes killed on the battlefields of France in the year and more that the Yanks were engaged inactive warfare. As compared to the record of influenza deaths for the past two and one-half months in Davenport, the figures show that the plague took more than six times as many lives. The Da venport Democrat and Leader, December 24, 1918. INFLUENZA REACHED FIFTH OF FIGHTERS IN UNITED STATES. Chicago, Dec. --Approximately one out of five soldiers in the United States suffered from influenza during the epidemic; of these, one in six developed pneumonia and of the pneu monia patients, two out of five died This statement was made by Dr. George A. Soper of the United States surgeon general's staff m today's issue of the Journal of the American. Medical Association. - Associated Press Report. - Are Physicians Hopeless with Acute Diseases? Who Failed to Cure the Acute and Let Them Become Chronic? Do Chronic Cases Live On In Spite Of, Not Because of Physicians? PUNGENT AND POSITIVE PROOF The "Flu" Flurry began about October 1st. Its end was definitely in sight December 25th,1918. Since the last named date we have been compiling Medical, Osteopathic and Chiropractic statistics, covering between those dates. They are as follows: DAVENPORT , IOWA STATISTICS NUMBER OF CASES UNDER MEDICAL.CARE 4,9531 NUMBER OF CASES UNDER CHIROPRACTIC ADJUSTMENT 1,633 UNITED STATES OSTEOPATHIC STATISTICS NUMBER OF CASES UNDER OSTEOPATHIC TREATMENT 10,141 . IOWA CHIROPRACTIC STATISTICS EXCLUDING DAVENPORT V 4,735; NATIONAL CHIROPRACTIC STATISTICS, EXCLUDING DAVENPORT AND IOWA 28.946 TOTAL STATISTICS TOTAL CASES NUMBER OF REGULAR PHYSICIANS . 50. NUMBER DAVENPORT CHIROPRACTORS (Including Students and Faculty) 150 NUMBER OF OSTEOPATHS 344 NUMBER OF CHIROPRACTORS 102 MEDICAL DEATHS 274 CHIROPRACTIC DEATHS 1 NUMBER OF DEATHS 80 6 613 NUMBER OF CHIROPRACTORS 865 34 TOTAL CHIROPRACTIC DEATHS 41 a- THE DAVENPORT MEDICAL DEATH RATIO IS 1 TO 18 CASES OR 5 5-9 PER CENT THE AMERICAN OSTEOPATHIC ASSOCIATION, DEATH RATIO IS 1 TO 127 CASES, OR.0087, OR 4-5 OF ONE PER CENT. THE PALMER SCHOOL OF CHIROPRACTIC DEATH RATIO IS 1 TO 1,633 CASESOR 000612, ORO 1 PER CENT THE IOWA CHIROPRACTIC DEATH RATIO IS 1 TO 789 CASES, OR .00 127, OR 1-8 OF 1 PER CENT THE UNITED STATES CHIROPRACTIC DEATH RATIO, EXCLUDING IOWA, IS 1 TO 851 CASES OR 00117 OR 1-9 OF 1 PER CENT THE GRAND NATIONAL CHIROPRACTIC DEATH RATIO IS 1 TO 886 CASES, OR .00119, OR 19 OF 1 PER CENT. LK CLJNT. CONVINCING CONCLUSIONS When you read the above, you wonder about this boasted education of physicians; how much they know; how much power they want to control people with. Not being satisfied with being useless in the face of the "Flu" they try to drive Chiropractors into the same useless educational channels, claiming, that we can't do anything until we know everything they were taught; that we can't be competent Chiropractors un til we have been taught the THEORY and PRACTICE of MEDICINE. That man is best educated who is most useful. War is primarilly intended TO TAKE LIFE. Physieians are taught (?) how (?) to SAVE (?) life. When they stand helplessly by and see "SIX TIMES AS MANY" die at THEIR hands as died under war; should they not then be recorded as 6 times as dangerous as war? When Chiropractors reduce that record; away below the pale of the record of war, then we become a useful member of society WHETHER WE STUDY subject for subject, hour for hour the same as medicine or not; and WHAT EVER we study no matter how long or how short that time, it PROVES ITSELF USEFUL IN SAVING LIFE. Over 400,000 people in the United States have died of "Flu" under medical care; this in spite of the fact that they have practically had military control of cities with their bans on business, people compelled to wear masks, quarantines on homes, vac cines, etc, etc - ... s At the Davenport rate of 1 death tol8 cases (which statistics admit is very low) this would mean 7,200,000 people were sick in the United States. At the Chiropractic ratio of 1 death to 886 "Flu" cases, adjusted by Chiroprac tors, it means they could have attended 35,440,000 of people before they would have reached the same national death rate. of 400,000. If 7,200,000 people in the United States had "Flu"; and, Chiropractors could have adjusted these 7,200,000 people; and, the Chiropractic death rate is 1 to 886; then only 8352 should have died, not 400,000. Our reports are from 865 Chiroractors, 17 times as many as the 50 physicians of Davenport, Iowa, who had a death list of 274 cases, which is almost 7 times as many as the 865 Chiropractors. ( Our reports further show 35,314 casees with the M. D.'s having 46 1-2 times as with the physicians' death list of 274 with 4,953 cases.. We have to our credit 17 times as many practitioners; 7 times as many casts with the M. D.'s having 46 1-2 times as many deaths in proportion. . Upon the same basis, the Chiropractors would be entitled to 17 times as many cases or 1,642,101, inasmuch as the Dovenport medical ratio is 1 death in 18 cases; in order to reach their death rate of 274 cases. In the light of these positive, provable figures, let us ask:--- Should "regular" medical men be given MORE power, or be shorn of some they already have? Should Chiropractors be given GREATER LIBERTY to decrease the death rate and increase the living rate? Is Medical education RIGHT, irrespective of HOW LONG it takes? Is Chiropractic education CORRECT, even though it is shorter IN TIME? HOW DO FIGURES PROVE THE ANSWERS? - t (Osteopathic figures compiled by a questionaire system conducted by The Osteopathic Association) Figures compiled by, printed in and passed out as a compliment from The Palmer School of Chiropracti6 Printing Plant, "Chiropractic Fountain Head," Davenport Iowa, U. S. A Dr. 0. L SCOTT, 301-12 U. S. Nat'l BankBldg. GRADUATE OF THE PALMER SCHOOL O F CHIROPRACTIC. 1 5 i ? i I ' 4 I 4 i ' i if 1 r i? II it ft !! if U h If. It it 0 r I : t t r f h if tt 1? n v. I.U tm'm'm m -mimum I1I.HI.IWIIIIWII1I