Show i Daily a l Health St Service ServiceWomen tt Women Suffer More lore From Serious Diseases 1 Br ny DR MORRIS FISHBEIN 0 Editor Journal of the American Med tIed leal ical Association and of Hygeia the Health Magazine 1 g Some years cars ago the commission on medical education alter after studying the 0 cases In the practice of numerous general practitioners came to the 0 conclusion that 90 per cent of or diseases dis S e eases cs coming to the attention of physicians phy ph- could be handled by general 1 0 practitioners with the amount of equipment that could uld be carried in ina a handbag Statistical studies of diseases are Important because they show physicians t tie the e kind of work for which they must be prepared One organization which makes examinations of men and women at periodic Intervals has recently compared com corn pared the rates of disease among men and women as determined b by the examination examination ex of people The women wo vO women wo- wo men Included workers of all aU tj types CS housewives clerks In stores and those ser In serving in the various arious professions Many of the conditions from which the women suffer arc nrc connected with wIlli childbirth The rates are higher among ong women than among men for tor functional murmurs of the heart neuritis nervousness and abnormal reflexes Women have varicose arkose veins more frequently than do men and also lesions of or the heart and enlargement of the heart On the other hand the only conditions con con- in which there is a a. definite excess in the rate for men are deflected deflected de de- in the nose thickening thick ening or hardening of the arteries defective hearing frequent colds and pyorrhea Just why men should have nose and throat troubles so much more than women is of great inter inter- cst est but the reason is not clear When the figures for were studied in relation t to all of th the women it Is found that they suffer swIer more frequently from some cond condl than do women in general Since housewives are married to ro a afar afar atar far tar greater extent than are other women workers the explanation lies lie In the fact that the conditions con conS are definitely associated with childbirth Women have M far tar more disturbances dis- dis of the thyroid than do men They complain much more o of tenderness in the region of the gall gallbladder gallbladder gallbladder bladder and appendix So far as the age at which disease e occurs is concerned the ages in both groups seem to be the same Sex dif dlf in the occurrence of various diseases are arc factors actors which interest physicians greatly particularly in Jn the matter of making a diagnosis There was a time when certain diseases were limited almost exclusively to men even those that did not affect tissues or organs p peculiarly masculine Since women have come to a large extent exten out of the home and into industry and Into similar politically active pC po po- they begin to show disturbances dis- dis which were formerly limIted urn urn- almost wholly to men In the thc past the life lUe expectancy of women was in general greater than that of or man at any given age anc and among people living lI to years yeats ofa of a age e there would usually be more women women wo wo- men than thin men Equality of effort and associated therewith equality of ex CX makes it likely that In the future fu fu- Lure ture ure this distinction will m not main tain tam |