Word: mellitus
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...campaign against diabetes mellitus continues unabated, and new light on its treatment is revealed with surprising frequency. Why the disease is engaging the attention of so many medical men may be surmised from some figures just published in the Statistical Bulletin of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. The general tendency of diabetes mortality has been upward for fully 20 years. Since 1919 the rise has been still faster. The highest death-rates are found in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, the lowest in the southern and western states, largely because Negroes are less susceptible than whites, while Jews...