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Show Die Twice As Fast Figures obtained through a survey sur-vey of 750,000 American families, including 3,500,000 individuals, reveal re-veal that the death rate frcm ten major diseases is twice as high for these with incomes cf $1,000 a year, or less, than It is for the rest of the populaticn. Quoted by Miss Josephine Roche,. Assistant Secre'ary of the Treas-l ury, the figures mean that between 40,000.000 and 50,000,000 Americans in the low-income grcup, have twice the chance to die from the ten diseases than if they were in the upper income groups. |