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Show Appendicitis Deaths Halved in Last 4 Years NEW YORK. - The death rate from appendicitis was cut in half in the last four years in addition to a 30 per cent drop in the decade between 1930 and 1940 among industrial indus-trial policy holders, insurance company com-pany statisticians reported. "The extraordinary change is largely due to the prevention of complications of the disease, and more recently to the use of sulfa drugs in the surgical treatments,". Metropolitan Life insurance company com-pany statisticians said. |