Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-09-06
MODERN LIVING
SHORTENS LIVES
Of NEWARKERS
City Has Excessive Mortality
from circuIative Diseases,
Says Dr.. Craster.
oVER-EATlNC, DRINKING
AND SMOKING THE CAUSES
loo Much Excitement Also
Causes High Blood
Pressure.

10 Newar!.ers care for longevity? Z?
VI Is their motto, while we live, let
US live?' Acting Health Officer
CHARLES V. Craster today called the
attention of an Evening Star reporter.
IN an interview, to what he charac-
ter1zed as an excessive mortality from
eirculatiye diseases in Newark.
Too many people In Newark, accord
ing to DR.. Craster, are shortening
Their lives by modern living. Today
is Labor Day and that makes DIR.
Craster's statements the more inter
esting, because it's likely that most
or the people are whole heartedly de-
voting the day to just the things his
warming is sounded against
The death rate from circulative
diseases in Newark Is too high.
There is too much hardening of ar
teries, too much kidney trouble,
heart trouble, liver trouble, ap-
oplexy, said the acting health Off
Ger. This can be materially reduced
by sane methods OF living. IL is not
for me to give a definition of sane
living, but We all know what is in
sane-over-eating, excessive meat
eating, chronic excitement, alcohol,
tobacco, these all produce a high
blood pressure ana it is the high
blood pressure which brings the circu-
lative diseases"
Quotes Figures as Proof.
DR.. Craster gave these figures,
taken at random from the latest CEN
sus report, showing Newark's NOR
tality from these troubles, as COM
pared with that of other sections:
Newark, 1912, 16.5 per 100000; 1913,
21.1. st. Louis, 1912, 14.9; 1913 1913. Ru-
raj districts: Middlesex county IN. J)
farming section, 1912, ga; 1918, 9.3.
Somerset county IN. j. farming sec
Maine, farming section, 1912, 20.4; 1918,
1873.
Eephritis (Bright's Disease).
Newark, 1912, 1194; 1913 142.1.
Omaha, 1912, 923; 1918 ST. Rural dis
tricts: Middlesex county, 1912, sos;
1918, 77.6. Somerset county, 1912, 99.7;
1918, l129 State OF Maine, 1919, 91.7;
1918. s3e
ut Is the modern city way Of Hvins
that puts the circulative disease NOR
tality far beyond where it should be,
said DIR. Craster. ut is difficult to
compare Newark with a rural sec
tion in considering these statistics.
There is such an influx OF young,
vigorous, healthy people into a large
city with big manufacturing inter-
ests that the population is increased
out Of proportion to the circulative
disease death rate.
A circulative disease death rate OF
one per 100000 means much more in
Newark than 1t would in rural COM
munity, where the various ages or
man are present in their natural pro-
portions.
Conditions Are Very Bad.
The conditions are much worse than
the statistics show, as great part
of the population of Newark is made
up Of young people not yet suscept-
ible to these diseases, though their
habits of life may be such that the
diseases are already obtaining nolo
upon them.
"a big trouble is improper feeding
and improper hendling of the food
by the organs of the body
AN increase in blood pressure be-
yond normal is the only indication
of the approach of these ctrculatlVe
diseases" said DR.. Craster. He con-
tinued, explaining how a man car
tell when he's falling victim. II
appears the circulative diseases dc
not creep up Denlnu lneiI pLey aiiu
sandbag him. Like a rattlesnake
they give warning before they strike
Blood pressure is quite all we need
today to tell us whether our bodies
are getting in the grip of circulativt
diseases" he eaid. 'Tt indicates tha
changes are going on within us which
are the developments of some one OF
the diseases. And blood pressure TAX
ing is SO simple now that no family
man is doing his duty to his family
or himself If he fails to consult
physician, or the dispensary, to SET
what shape he Is in"