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Day
26
Month
April
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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The medical statistics of this country have been stndied by Dr. Joba T. Billings from the racial standpoint. He deduces many curious facts: Tho infantile deatb rate among the blackaisvery bigli; lbo race itself is shorter lived than the white; it is less Hable than the white to malaria, ypllowfever and cancer, but snecumbs more readily to i berculosis and pneumonía. Irish dren survive infantile diseases, bnt the adult death rate is high; tuberculosis, pnenmonia and alcoholism cut them down. Germans are especially Hablo to digestivo disorders and cáncer. Jews have a low death rate; they live loug; their diseases are diabetes, locomotor ataxia and Inndred nervoua aumenta. -

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Ann Arbor Argus
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