SURGEON GENERAL SAYS DEATH RATE REDUCED BY SCIENTIFIC CARE
New York City (JFK+50) In a front page story in The Newark Leader of December 4, 1925, Dr. Hugh S. Cumming*, speaking at a health conference here in New York, said that experiments have taken place in Syracuse and Cattaraugus counties "to see (if) twenty years can...be added to the average life span by scientific care."
The doctor says the death rate has been reduced by 350 persons per year in Cattaraugus County "at a cost of less than $50 per life."
JFK+50 NOTE
The average lifespan in the United States in 1925 was 58 years.
Hugh S. Cumming (1869-1948) was born in Hampton, VA & was educated at the University of Virginia School of Medicine (1893) & University College of Richmond. HSC served as Surgeon General of the U.S. 1920-1936.
SOURCE
"Can Add Twenty Years to Life Doctors Say," The Newark Leader, Newark, Ohio, December 4, 1925, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
