RT Journal
A1 FAHR G, Carter DW, Cosgrove JH, Edgar JD
T1 CArdiovascular examinations of fifty-five thousand recruits
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD January 18
VO 72
IS 3
SP 162
OP 169
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610030008003
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610030008003
AB There is no reason why diseases of the heart should not be given equal rank with tuberculosis, for in civil life they result in at least as many, if not more, deaths. In the Allied armies more disability is due to cardiovascular disease than to tuberculosis. The recent report to Parliament showed that of the 350,000 men in the British army discharged and pensioned for wounds and diseases, a little over 10 per cent. were for heart disease and about 11 per cent, for chest complaints and tuberculosis. When we consider that whenever tuberculosis is found in the soldier he is discharged and pensioned, whereas very many of the men with cardiovascular disease are not discharged but are merely put in deferred classes of the Army, we see that circulatory diseases are undoubtedly of more importance to the Army than tuberculosis. It will surprise many to know that there are