New York Jews are especially susceptible to diabetes it is asserted in the February issue of the British Medical Journal.
The publication analyzes the New York City health record for 1934 and finds it “remarkably good.”
Despite the grave economic depression in the United States during the past five years, the general death rate in New York was only 10.15 per thousand population, the lowest ever obtained there, the publication establishes.
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