Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1901 — Many Deaths from Cancer. [ARTICLE]

Many Deaths from Cancer.

The increasing prevalence of cancer in New Jersey is giving the health authorities of that State much uneasiness, and they are carrying on an investigation. During the past year iq New Jersey there have b«n 426 deaths from diphtheria, 78 from scarlet fever, 119 from typhoid fever and 1.001 from cancer.