BLAMING THE “PICTURES”
DEATHS FROM. HEART DISEASE (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATIONUNITED SERVICE.) LONDON, April 18. The emotional character of present day films, plays and novels is responsible for the enormously increased death rate from heart disease, is the significant declaration by Dr. Strickland, of the Goodall Institute of Hvgiene. He added that whereas a few years ago the age of sudden death was between fifty and sixty, it was becoming alarmingly younger. The death roll from heart disease had increased four hundred per cent latterly He recalled there wore no fewer than twelve deaths among listeners-in to the Tunney Dempsey broadcast.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 19 April 1928, Page 9
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