THE CAUSES OF DISEASES
MENTAL CASES IN AMERICA
EVERY SECOND HOSPITAL BED
STRAIN OF FAST LIVING
NOTED SURGEON’S OPINIONS
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.
Rec. 10.30 p.m. Vancouver. Oct. 14. “Every second hospital bed in the United States is occupied by a mental case and there is an enormous number of people almost fit for an asylum; treatment of the disease will some day soon become a confession of failure,” said Dr. Charles Mayo when lecturing at a convention of theAmerican College of Surgeons. "Within reasonable limits any community may determine its own death rate,” Dr. Mayo said, arguing that the fast pace of living was the chief cause of deaths these days. The expectation of life had moved up to 58 years and halted there. The causes of the greatest number of adult diseases were infections and emotions. Man could not fear, hate or worry intellectually; he did those things with all his organs.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1931, Page 7
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