Australia's Big Killer is Rheumatic Fever
•HOBART, Jan. 18. Rheumatic fever was responsible for nearly a third of the deaths from natural eauses in Australia each year and was a greater killer than either cahcer or tube'rculosis, said Dr. A. R. Southwood, chairman of the Central Board of Health of South Australia, in an address to the medical section of the conference of Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Sciextce. He added that 70,000 people died each year in Australia from .naturai causds and of these 23,000 died froxn diseases of the cireulatory evstem.
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Chronicle (Levin), 19 January 1949, Page 7
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