HEART CAUSE MOST DEATHS
WADDINGTON, Dec. 27. The Publie Health Service reports that the hoart lias displaced cancer as the cause of niojt deaths. Ileart disease deaths totlTJled 424,22s, ( cancer 1 77,-1(54, cerebral Tiaemorri^fge 129,144, and accidents 95.91ft of which inotor cars caused 28,076. Deaths from infoctious iliseases iiicludiiig pnoumonia and intluen/a, weri' tlie lowest on record. Tho toi ti! deaths tor the year Were 1,401,712.
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Chronicle (Levin), 30 December 1946, Page 5
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66HEART CAUSE MOST DEATHS Chronicle (Levin), 30 December 1946, Page 5
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