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gastric ulcer on the West coast, Petersen says, "The entire 

 west coast, including California as a focal state, reveals 

 high rates, this time including Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. 



Under! 



(Per hundred 

 thousand) 



FIG. 39. Exophthalmic goiter during 1920-1930 (American mortality). 

 (Reproduced from William F. Petersen, M.D., " The Patient and the Weather"} 



The South is relatively free but does reveal a light increase 

 in Louisiana and Florida, regions that are somewhat more 

 unstable. In the North the Negro dies more often from 

 ulcer of the stomach, though the environment of Florida, 

 as we observe for the white race, seems somewhat more 

 precarious for the colored individual, too. 



"Newfoundland, out of the region of the major storm 



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