CAUSE OF DISEASE
■ (Press Assn.—
1 FAMOUS SURGEON'S VIEWS I FAST PACE OF MODERN LIFE
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I Rec. Oct. 15, 7 p.m. I ■ VANCOUVER, Thursday. I "Every second hospital bed in the IU.S.A. is occupied by a mental case land there is an enormous number of ■ people almost fit for the asylum. The Itreatment of disease will some day soon become a confession of failure," said Dr. Charles Mayo, lecturing at the Convention of the American College of Surgeons. "Within reasonable limits any comttiunity may determine its own death rate," he said, arguing- that the fast Pace of living was the chief cause of death these days. The life expectant had moved up to 58 years and held there. The causes of the greatest numher of adult diseases were infections and emotions. "Man cannot feel hate or worry intellectually, he does these things with his organs," said Dr. Mayo. severe."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 46, 16 October 1931, Page 3
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