Show l Various Causes of De Death th It Is illuminating g to read the caus causes g got of ot death In 1917 a 1917 a t typical year ear In which the figures w were re not complicated ted t- t ed by the war war of every thousand I persons In the United States died out of every hundred thousand d deaths 1532 were from diseases of t tie the e heart t 1 1498 f from pneumonia 1404 from trop tuberculosis 1074 from kidney trou trou- bles from apoplexy 10 from cancer 79 from diarrhoea froin diseases of the arteries from In- In flu from rom diabetes fro from fron diphtheria from bronchitis from flora li h accidents of all nIl sorts Arterial 4 1 diseases and diabetes show snow an Increase Increase In In- crease that thatis Is really alarming for In 1900 1000 only 61 Gl per died of the tho former and only 97 the latter These with those of ot the heart and kidneys are arc diseases that result directly fro from the strain and stress of pf modern life lite Popular Science Monthly |