The Key West citizen. [volume], February 02, 1954, Page Page 10, Image 10

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Heart Disease Death Rate fn Key West Ranks Bel
20 Different
Forms Of Heart
Ills Included
In Nafl Survey
(SpMtl T. fht CHhm)
NEW YORK —According
to statistics now being re.
leased by the Government,
heart disease, our nation's
leading health menace, is
responsible for a smaller
proportion of the deaths in
Key West than in most oth
er sections of the United
States.
The data, contained in the
first nation-wide report on
vital statistics since 1949,
was gathered during the last
census fend is being publish
ed in three volumes by the
U. S. Public Health Service.
It Show*, for Key West, s heart
disease toll for the year of 81 equi
valent to 36.3 per cent of aU local
deaths.
This was a smaller proportion
than was found generally in Ihe
United States, whore heart ail
ments accounted far 52.8 per cent
•f all deaths. It was lower also
than the heart mortality in the
South Atlantic States, 50.5 per
cent.
Indoded hi the figures are the
20 different forms of heart disease
which, together, strike down about
775,000 men. women and children
annually. This is more than the
coroMned loti of cancer plus all
other diseases and all accidents.
In addition, points out the Am
ericas Heart Association, there are
some 10,000,000 o t our people who
are partially or wholly disabled be
cauae of heart ailments. They rep
resent an annual loss of 176 mil
lion work days and a resultant loss
of productivity estimated at $2.1
billion.
The 81 heart deaths in Key
West in the year were equal to
a rate ef 307 deaths per 100,000
population. This compares favor
ably with the findings for the
nation at a whole, 507 per 100,000.
It waa also lower than the South
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JUDGE WALTER C. LINDLEY and his wife, of Chicago, are visiting here for three weeks at
the Key Wester Hotel. He is judge of the Federal Court of Appeals for the Chicago District.
Judge Lindley has been on the Federal bench since Sept. 29, 1922, when he was appointed
judge of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Illinois, by President Warren G. Harding.
He and Mrs. Lindley live at 1212 Lake Shone Drive, Chicago.—Citizen Staff Photo, Finch.
Atlantic States rate, 444 heart
disoaso per 100,000.
Despite the seriousness of the
problem, what with one out of
every 16 in the country suffering
from some form of heart or blood
vessel disease, hope exists because
research is making vital new dis
coveries, states die American
Heart Association. Some heart con
ditions can now be prevented and
some can be cured. Significant
strides are being made toward the
conquest of others.
Tuesday, February 2,1954
Age Of Earth
Estimated At
41-2 Billion
By ROBERT GOLDENSTEIN
CHICAGO (jfl—Four scientists us
ing an atomic yardstick to meas
ure time have pushed the origin
of the earth back to at least 4M>
billion years ago.
This is the oldest date yet ob
tained by analyzing elements in
the solar system.
However, there is evidence that
for some two billion years of its
existence, the earth’s surface was
not solid as it is today, but was
molten or in some other diffuse
nonsolid state.
The studies were based on two
slightly different kinds of lead
found in meteorites—the small
bodies which scientists say were
formed in the same nuclear up
heaval that produced the earth.
The lead once was uranium, a
substance that loses its radio
activity at a known rate in a de
caying process. However, there are
at least two kinds of isotopes in
natural uranium, differing slightly
in weight.
The different rate at which the
two kinds of isotopes lose their
radioactivity is the key to the age
determining technique.
The heaviest isotope, uranium
238, loses half its radioactivity in
4V4 billion years, decaying into
lead 206. Another uranium isotope,
U-235—the kind used in the A-bomb
—loses half its radioactivity in
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him with plaques. Here, Harvey receives the one from Mrs.
Ruby Smith, Auxiliary president, which states: “For outstand
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SAN ANGELO, Tex. UP) - “Old
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“No use of this fund shall be
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married nor for shiftless indigents
applying for charity,” the will stat
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Miss Schott, a retired school
teacher and hatchery operator,
left an estate estimated “in excess
of $10,000.” Her age was not dis
closed.
710 million years, and decays in
to lead 207.
A comparison of the ratio of the
two kinds of lead present reveals
the age of the sample. The higher
the proportion of lead 206, the old
er the sample.
The study of the lead atoms was
made on the University of Chica
go’s mass spectrometers by Claire
Patterson and Harrison Brown,
now of the California Institute of
Technology; George Tilton, now of
the Carnegie Institute of Washing
ton, and Mark Ingrham, asociate
professor of physics at the Uni
versity of Chicago.
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versity of Chicago reports, con
tended that the meteorite bad ex
isted in its present state for 4Vi
billion years.
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