A GRAVE PROBLEM.
A now department, known as the “heart department” has been inaugurated at the London Hospital under the direction of Dr. James Mackenzie, and is being generously subsidised by the Board of Education. The aim of this department is to cope with the great number of cases of rheumatism which occur in the East End of London. This disease attacks the young people early on account of the weakened condition and their unhealthy mode of living. Rheumatism and rheumatic fever cause the “rheumatic heart,’' and the thousands of sufferers from what is practically an army of “unemployables.” This grave social problem will be studied and investigated at the new hospital. One of the most interesting appliances which aid the work of investigation is the electrocardiograph which electrically registers the patient’s heart beats, their duration and intensity. By this means it is believed that much greater certainty in diagnosis can bo obtained.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 95, 29 April 1913, Page 4
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153A GRAVE PROBLEM. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 95, 29 April 1913, Page 4
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