RESULT OF "HUSTLE."

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 32, 7 February 1908, Page 2

RESULT OF " HUSTLE. "

HEART DISEASE INCREASING. Much comment and Cqmo alarm have , l*en exoitod by the publication of etahs- [ tics showing that deaths from heart disease, aro enormously incrcaeiug in all the big American cities (writes a New York corespondent). In New York, where we live tho strenuous life, tho inorcaee is 27 per cent., as compared' with last year, and in Chicago it is a trifle worse. Speaking generally, the deaths from heart disease, according to theso figures, are altogether out of proportion. Naturally, a public discussion has begun, and exports have bpen consulted. Tlio latter attribute the epidemic chiefly to tho feverish pace of Americans, and secondly to their habit of worrying. Rich or poor, good times or bad, Americans will worry. Bays ono authority; and whei. pooplopooplo live too fast, do not take- enough exercise, and worry too much, heart disease ih bound to bo epidemic. Americans, it is urged, must return to the simple lifu. They must learn something; from the life of ease and eport of tho averago 1 Englishman; learn to walk instead of riding in traina and subways; and, above -all, uot to worry so much. It will interest you to know that KnghchmHU are regarded by the avorago American a» usually leading "a life of easo and sport." While the money criois lasts it is impossible to see- how tha country can got along without wonying, but it is hoyed that things will improve rapidly next roar _ Not all tho authorities attach Fpeciai importance to the heart disease statistics One Amerioan fcpecialitt, for example-, saya ho attributes the increase largely to the improved methods of diagnosis. Pooplo who were iormerly called pane, he says, are now considered perfectly mad, and "it is tho same thing with ihe heart. Thy moro we know about tho heart and 1U diagnosis, cays this reassuring practitioner, the more heart dibdaso fcliall we record.