8 Indiana University Studies 



TWO GREATEST CAUSES OF DEATH IN UNITED STATES 



Organic Pulmonary 



Year Heart Trouble Tuberculosis 



1911 83.525 81,796 



1912 86,179 75,429 



1913 93,142 80,812 



1914 93,588 84,366 



1915 105,200 85,993 



Statistics show numbers but not the human suffering which 

 must be a resultant factor of sickness and death. In order to 

 show the general situation in complete form, statistics should 

 have been given to denote the number of homes affected by these 

 deaths, the number of widowers and widows left, and the number 

 of children remaining to face the world with one parent or per- 

 haps both parents gone. Such studies have not as yet been 

 published in connection with organic heart trouble. 



Tuberculosis, upon the other hand, has been under discussion 

 for so long now that very complete statistics can be found con- 

 cerning it. As a result, such successful campaigns have been 

 waged against this dread disease that its death toll was 25 per 

 cent less in 1915 than it was in 1904. 



Summary 



From the facts shown here it can be seen that the cardiac 

 patient is one of the greatest medico-social problems of the present 

 day. More deaths are caused by this disease than by any one 

 other, according to the statistics for the United States, Indiana, 

 and New York City. 



