ALARMING REVELATION.
. SCHOOL CHILDREN’S HEALTH. HEART DISEASE IN NEW YORK. *Per Press Association. Copyright.! NEW YORK, March; 19. Twenty thousand school children, Representing 2 per cent, of the total Inumber, have heart disease, according %o a survey made by the Bellevue Hospital, the city’s chief institution. This |s due chiefly to carious teeth, diseased •{tonsils, and! malnutrition. A campaign is being launched for greater clinical .pare, especially in cases of juvenile Rheumatism, which is due to the first jfcvro causes, and is the forerunner of pardiac trouble.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIII, Issue 9826, 20 March 1923, Page 5
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87ALARMING REVELATION. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIII, Issue 9826, 20 March 1923, Page 5
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