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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH Wage War on Heart Disease - Will Take 20 Years of Work to Curb Cardiac Ailments. In yew York. Organized medicine the for itself has girded America the greatest battle against disease Is adit While known. world has ever mitted that marked results will not be generally apparent under twenty years, the campaign is undertaken with the for greatest courage and confidence, the ,4hose engaged in it know that The enemy objective is conquerable. condisease which now invites this centration of scientific energy is heart disease. The forces which are rallynot Only ing to its minimization are medithe of ranks recruited from the relief, social, nurses, cal profession; vocational guidance and school workers whose careers Involve them In cardiac problems now have the backing of rapidly growing authority and efforts to are joining in make war on the common enemy, according to Mr. Haven Emerson, former health commissioner of New York. While a large part of the present activity is concentrated in this city', because nf its size and population, there is a wide, spontaneous movement extending from coast to coast. The degree of success to be attained depends in a large measure on the ability of the leaders in this movement to awaken and educate the masses to the very real danger which increasingly confronts them, according to those in authority. That the menace is a present live issue is Indubitably shown by these facts recounted by Doctor Emerson in his part of the symposium prepared for the survey. Causes Most Deaths. Heart disease is now the greatest single cause of death in these United States. It reduces the life span to its victims by It Interferes in a recognizable form with the work, play or comfort of at least 2,000,000 persons in this country today. At least 15 of every 1,000 school children have already acquired some definite disorder of the heart At least 30 of every 1,000 men and women of working age - must reckon with heart disease as a disability in work or a handicap in their pleasures. During the last 50 years deaths in New York from heart disease have increased 42 per cent in number, while deaths from tuberculosis have fallen 44 per cent. Thus it will be seen that the of health is heart present disease and not tuberculosis. Indeed, tuberculosis has fallen from first to sixth in the list of causes of death. Conservative physicians promise that within 50 years it will cease to be a serious factor in mortality. For every death from heart disease during a year there are 17 persons still alive suffering from it, whereas the comparable ratio In tuberculosis is about seven cases for each death. In persons under twenty-fiv- e years of age there are more deaths from heart disease than from typhoid fever. and thirty-fouBetween twenty-fiv- e heart disease kills more men and woms en than does pneumonia. of the deaths from heart disease are in persons over forty years of age, and for these later decades no other cause of death compares with it in frequency, according to Doctor Emerson. Here are some figures, for example: In 1922 there were 1,047,402 deaths in the total United States registration area, and of these 134,184 were due to heart disease, which was the leading cause of death. In 1915 a nucleus of the medical profession suddenly awoke to the gravity one-hal- f. arch-enem- y r, Nine-tenth- of the situation. Physicians found themselves confronted by these three questions in regard to heart disease: Is it preventable, communicable, curable? Here are the answers: The commonest causes of heart disease, rheumatism and specific blood disease are properly considered communicable. Many heart diseases are entirely preventable. Some are wholly curable. Main Causes. In addition to those mentioned. Doctor Emerson names these as the main causes: Poisoning by alcohol, tea, coffee and tobacco, poor bodily habits, physical indolence, obesity, occasional extreme exertion without sufficient training, congenital defects, those errors of development in the prenatal months of the infant which leave the heart imperfect at birth. But of all heart diseases which the doctor sees, in hospitals or out, from 70 to 90 per cent Is due to general Infections. While the germ or poison which causes acute rheumatism is still unknown, Doctor Emerson says the disease Is infectious. He adds: No longer will it be good form to make a social center and family gathering place of the bedroom of acute This includes Tommy, rheumatism. with his growing pains at five and Sally with St. Vitas dance at seven and dad with sore throat, as well as inUncle Ned, who has a flammatory rheumatism every couple of years and was told after the last attack that he must have his tonsils out and favor his heart a bit because the rheumatism had touched one of the valves before it left him weak and anemic. 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And, furthermore, some of them would be horrified at the Immodesty of a skirt. The beaches of American seaside resorts would pain the fine sensibilities of the Sumatra and Celebes savages who consider it highly improper to expose the knees. Washington, D. C. "A Chinese woman would not think of exposing to the public gaze her bound feet, a lady of Yap would never be seen promboulevard enading down the mud-hu- t her wovwithout native of her village en necklace of hibiscus leaves though her grass skirt was her only garment, and the Mohammedan woman of a few years ago would not be seen without her veil. Modesty has a geography all Its own, says a bulletin from the WashNaMode. The Snaggle-Tootington (D. C.) headquarters of the connecin tional Geographic society, In one of the New Hebrides Istion with the winter fashion decrees lands in the Pacific, a married woman from Paris. can be modest only by being snaggle-toothePart ofhe wedding cereHidden. Keep Finger Tips of relieving the lady consists mony Alexander von Humboldt, who of her two middle incisors by smashtraveled extensively over the world ing them with a rock. known in the Eighteenth century, reSome of the Mohammedan women corded in his travels that some of of the Sahara region will tear off the central Asian peoples are reluc- their last garment to cover their faces tant to let any one see their finger upon the approach of a stranger. The who visited the demure Breton maiden wears a cunA traveler tips. Alaska coast, in the same century, ning little close cap, because it would found that native women, after he be dreadfully Immodest to uncover had persuaded them to remove an her hair. Sturdy German peasant ornament which made the lower part women paddle around their homes and of the mouth protrude two or three fields in dresses that just escape their inches, were greatly embarrassed. knees, but they would be shocked at It seems paradoxical that clothes the idea of wearing a dress which ornawas .open at the neck. originated out of the desire for mentation rather than for warmth. In the Tonga islands a man would Arabs of the hot deserts of Arabia consider himself thoroughly unpreand Africa are fully swathed in flow- pared to appear before his fellow serve mortals unless he was tattooed, and ing garments, which only in part as protection from the heat, while the Marquesans follow much the same the Patagonians, from the coldest por- practice, the amount of the decoration of the South American continent, tion varying with the rank of the inwear only the skin of one animal as dividual, but the legs are always tata kind of windshield. Our word mod- tooed from ankle to thigh. Warriors esty, came from the Latin modus, have themselves done in geometrical meaning measure or standard, and designs with squares and Inverted the clothing which was customarily triangles on their faces, and the womworn therefore became our first con- en are ornamented in patterns which ception of what was the proper or resemble fine lace work. Some of modest thing to wear. Each of the them wear loin cloths and girdles of worlds peoples consequently has its tapa cloth, a fabric made from the own standards. bark of the breadfruit tree. came first to who An American lady of 1924 is not The explorers American shores found that the Carib selfconscious at exposing her arms Indian women, who simply wore em- and shoulders in the evening, but she broidered girdles, often appeared would be shocked at wearing a decolwithout this single garment, but they lete gown to breakfast or lunch. 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