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Show HEALTH SURVEY ENDORSED 61 COUHJYJDFFICER Dr. R. G. Frazier Say Data Secured Will Be Bene fkiat in Future Work Control of infant mortality and the stamping out of infectious disease during the last fifty years have been the two main factors in expanding1 the period of life expectancy from !i5 years to CO years, according to Ir. It. G. Frasicr, local county health officer who has endorsed the U. fl. public health service survey of chronic chron-ic diseases and physical disabilities. "Today, we realize that most people peo-ple are dying of heart disease, high, blood pressure, brain hemorrhage, kidney trouble, cancer and other chronic and disabling diseases, but wc luck any worthwhile statistics relative to the causes of chronic and disabling illnesses," Ir. Fraxier pointed out. "It is for these reasons that the United States public health service has instigated a survey of 05 cities' in .10 states to determine the extent and severity of chronic diseases and their relation to the loss of time from work during the year," the doo-j tor said. The questions aslced family boan by the enumerators include tho names, ages, occupations, whether or not any of them have been vaccinated for small pox or immuniied for diphtheria, diph-theria, how many illnesses have occurred oc-curred in the family during the last year involving a disability lasting seven days or longer and instances where members of the family have been hospitalized for medical enre, Dr. Frasiier said. "As stated before, the past fifty years have seen a steady advancement advance-ment in the control and cure of infectious in-fectious diseases, but never before in the history of the nation has such a serious program leen carried on to determine facts regarding chronla and disabling diseases, or the extent to which such sicknesses are suitably cared for in the average American, familv," Dr. Frazier declared. "There is little doubt the facts wilt be important in relationship to alt future considerations of plans providing pro-viding medical enre to the people and also in relationship to any governmental gov-ernmental expansions in measures for social security." |