Increasing Death Rates From Disease

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 9, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 31.

Increasing Death Rates From Disease

E. E. Rittenhouse, president of the Providence Savings Life Assurance Society of New York, according to an article in the Good Health for July, has called attention to the anomalous fact that six of the seven important classes of disease have increased enormously during the past thirty years. The death-rate from heart diseases, in Massachusetts, has increased 105 per cent; in the federal registration areas, 57 per cent; from apoplexy, in Massachusetts, 135 per cent; in the federal registration areas, 84 per cent; from kidney trouble, in the registration areas, 83 per cent. Consumption only has had a retarded death-rate.