HEART DISEASE
NO' ALARMLYG INCEiLISE. Some people havo boon perturbed by was thought to be a great ino.re-i.se in cases of hoail> disease. Tho Hon. G. J. Parr• <Mmistor■ far Publi-; Health) stated on AVednesday tlmt from figures supplied by the (lovernment Statistician there did not appear to havo been an alarming increase in the number of deaths frcim. organic heart disease during, the past eight years, tho figures being:— Per 10,000 Deaths Population 1912 1271 12.23 i 914 1301 11.93 ] 9.K3 1269 11.54 1918 1369 12:41 -~919 1538 13.50 '■It is hoped (added the Minister), now that the control of tho medical inspection of school children has been placed under tho Public Health Department and the strength .of the Itopartment materially increased, _ it will lie possible to pay more attention ■to wlv.it is knqwn as preventive medicine* than lias been possible in the past. This matter, among others., will loceive attention."
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Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 180, 31 July 1920, Page 3
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152HEART DISEASE Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 180, 31 July 1920, Page 3
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