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TOO MUCH "HEART FAILURE."

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 2, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 47.

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TOO MUCH "HEART FAILURE."

THE Registration and Sanitary Committee of the Board of Health of Philadelphia has issued the following significant notice: Physicians are requested not to place on any certificate "heart failure" as the cause of death, but the disease of which the patient was suffering prior to the heart failure. This term has never been placed on the list of diseases adopted by this board, it being looked upon as a result of some other illness from which the patient was suffering. Furthermore, it furnishes an opportunity to conceal contagious diseases, and thus permits the ignoring of the rules of this board, either innocently or designedly.