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..:'~. lu~d said: ~ t~_e absence • _~,/~_.. evidence tha.t..heal.th, o as m~.~ ,~h*~ U S. in 192~ than it ~_ 1.w], and smce we _have ~ ~'=s~n to believe that less - ~. ~'~n more alcohol per capita ~ ~"-'~ consumed in this coun-. _. than when traff~c, in alcoholic :~-~ves was an inoustry ~cep- m~..~'-~er the ]~w, and since we ~'~ ._.~,~ doe~ not add to their ~e ~.~, it is my opinion that some • ~ > d the general /mprovement in ~ -l~lth since Prohibition i~ the re- ~ tort of outlawing_eommeres in al- ~ Dr.. Louis Israel Dublin, of the • d N~t~opolitan Life Insurance Co. .~ Sled said: "Beginning wflh 1920 -'S ¢~ has been. • ..eontlnuo.us and. 4~. marked r~se in the, numoer ~.. dmth.~ resultLng fro_m the use of ~ ~teo.hol.. • • ; Th.e .quality of liquor ~ ~ tnrougnou~ xns country is suf- ~v ~k-iently bad to make up for the ~ ,m~l}er quantity censumed .... We ~v summarize our findings as fol- i ~o~',: that• the Prohibition period is ehara~erised by sharply declining • ~ortali~y rates among children and • - "ulolescents of both sexes, and that • . ~nis decline is continued over • • stabber of additional age periods among women. The improvement ~s retarded among young male ~ ~dults and disappears altogether • durirg the middle years of life that sex. In fact, the mortality Ires definitely risen among men d~er the age of Dr. Reed's rebuttal excited the ~ ~u~lic health convention. Men shouted and gesticulated. Dr. Reed : wanted to s.~0~.~.k further. "Dr. Emerson," sa~d he, "tried to make ~. prohibition responsible for about everything except the frost on the pumpkin and the swaliow's home- ~ard flight." Dr. Charles Value Chapiv of Providence, 1~ L, chair- man of the meeting, ordered the _discussion closed, soothed every- .Less exciting we~ =sacu " n~ of other subjects. _ Heart Disease sis often caused by ~ .:!.. repeated infections, such as the :orison col~ which do injury to the ~rgan," said Dr. Henry Albert of yes Moines, Iowa. ~rom 15% to ~ ~% of all cases of heart disease |. are apparently due to rheumatic • 1• " fever, a disease which occurs early _T.. ~.~ __.~. in_ life, in children of about 10 years ~ 4~=.. of age, and which almos~ always ~ .~~. ~dooa permanent damage to the % .... ~.earLm "More ~sn 100,000 people ., ~ die ~early in the U S of heart :"" ~ .--:=~ Cance~. A definite program to = ~ ..? help preveng cancer (responsible for ~ ~ ~ ~ more ~han 103,000 ft. S. deaths 7~ yearly) was the recommendation ~ ~f a ¢~mmittee made up of Dr. George Albert Soper, managing di- rector of the American Association for the Control of Cancer, Dr. Geo. H. ]]igelow, Health Commis~|oner of Massachusetts and Dr. Henry Fr/eze Vaughan, Health Commis- sioner of Detroit. The program: 11 st~ H~tb De~ar~nm=t and thc~e EMBARRA$5£ VG MOM£~T$ ~ben the mteelng =, • in the poker deck is dbeovered uudm ~our clKair.., be "- morn=Salsa..., lk~ t a " M "U A D ]'or those who feel entitled to life's ~etter thins 01~. P. ~ ~ s~ handle thk work in separ~e bureau or fu m~ ~xtstin~ ~ aS local conditions termlae: ¢=acer ~ and t~e death fac~ti~ available f~ di~mk ~d ~ sent ; ~t ~ m~i~ ~ut ; ~9i~ of ~ loud buzzing a~u£ p~ysb. ~t y~ at ~ ~e ~e ent~ coun~ h~ only ~ses; at the ~i~ of month (he~ were 595. And there is no known cu~. ~om newspaper disposes, the pubic he~ men l~ that Dr. Milan Joseph ~o~au ~f H~rd h~ ~d ~e ~~ Post Graduate A~on ~nv~tion at irl I "nc longer in the dark.n Expen- se its with human "serum had given some favorable results. From Man- ha~tan came information that Dr. W:z. Halloek Park and Dr. Joseph- ln,.--Neal of the New York Health D~.partment were beginning ex- p,,~iments,, on ~0 rhesus monkeys..: .. with serum from infantile paralysis patients kept at Willard Parker Hospital, the. city's contagious dis- ease hospital on the East River. front. Said. Dr. " Neal: :"To the . • .~.verage child there is no~ the tero ~41,1e danger connected with in- .. ~kntile paralysis, which many who ;~e uninformed believe exists.'*. Infant Mortality. The public • To find the cause and e~tw of infantile P~ ra]~|s are Part D~rpo~es e~ the 1~euroio~ics! Instltu~ for t~e ~ which ~'ound wu broke~ in bst week. |t~-S,e~ersl a~m ~ to s~s~It a~rvo~s dises~s. "One om of ~ of th~ "" ~httJon of the Unit~l States mo~ bu • r has had • nervous breakdown or ~ome othe~ form of aervous d~.sse." .said Dr. l;~rede~iek Ti]~ey of Columbia