NEVADA Bott, Ian H., Hawthorne NEW YORK Berger, Morton B., Brooklyn McKaba, William, Brooklyn Zimmerman, Carlton F., Buffalo OHIO Eiler, Lee E., Dayton Freed, Joe F., Findlay Hofner, John, Hicksville Sister Eva Marie Testa, Cincinnati Winsley, Thomas W., Zanesville OKLAHOMA
Haney, Michael J., Wisconsin Rapids Heise, Ferdinand, Milwaukee Marlewski, Theodore T., Milwaukee Nanscawen, John H., Milwaukee Perlberg, Edward G., Racine Postler, Reuben F., Milwaukee . Rice, Max, Milwaukee Schlonsky, Ben, Milwaukee Schlonsky, David E., Milwaukee Y oUrchak, Louis S., Milwaukee U. S. POSSESSIONS McInnes, Stanley, Anchorage, Alaska CANADA
Delhotal, C. E., Laverne OREGON CALIFORNIA Kruger, Arthur, Los Angeles COLORADO Tymkowych, John, Denver DELAWARE Ponsell, Francis I., Wilmington • DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA West, Jacqueline H., Washington, D. C. FLORIDA Merrill, George B., Jr., Lakeland Rehburg, Weldon R., St. Petersburg IDAHO Stalker, Wendell, Council ILLINOIS B'owles, Robert H., Homewood Cech, Joseph J., LaGrange INDIANA Sister M. Clara Francis Faulkner, Lafayette
KENTUCKY Bowles, Gerald E., Maysville Trimbur, Charles, Bellevue MARYLAND
Haller, Bertha A., Portland Haller, Virgil H., Portland Moore, Norman C., Portland Moreau, Alfred J . Portland Steele, Gerald M., Albany PENNSYLVANIA
Demarest, Dudley A., Baltimore Gotkin, Jerry, Takoma Park Nave, Jackson M., Salisbury Ruth, Stephen W., Marriottsville Trageser, Jacqueline G., Baltimore
Aaronson, Malvin S., Philadelphia Davendish, Sanford J., MahanoyCity Doll, Carl W., Philadelphia
MASSACHUSETTS
Ramirez, Miguel A., EI Paso VIRGINIA
MICHIGAN
Walter, James B., Jr., Norfolk
MISSOURI Seefurth, Francis P., Kansas City Shalinsky, Marvin D., Kansas City Yard, Harry E., Clayton NEW JERSEY Rosenberg, Solomon, Orange Schapiro, Eugene, Nutley Ward, William E., Waldwick Wright, Henry C., Jersey City
FOREIGN Hasdin, Chumsai, Bangkok, Thailand ' Patel, R. P., Ellisbridge Ahmadabad, Bombay State, Imdia Zadina, Rudolf, Prague, Czechoslovakia
TEXAS
Grenier, Romeo J., Holyoke Anderson, Mary L., Detroit
King, Barbara C., Vancouver B.C.
WASHINGTON Bettger, Richard H., Edmonds Harrison, Margaret, Richland WISCONSIN Bernstein, Herman H., Granville Bogdanski, Stanley C., Milwaukee Filipiak, Stanislaus P., Milwaukee Foxholm, Carl A., Racine
FEBRUARY MARKS 1952 HEART FUND DRIVE The American Heart Association has again selected February as the month for its Heart Fund Drive, and as in the past, the headquarters staff of the AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL AssoCIATION is cooperating with the American Heart Association. Diseases of the heart and circulation are the leading cause of death in the United States and during 1950, the latest year for available statistics, these diseases killed more than 745,000 people. The three most important forms of these diseases together account for about 90 per cent of all heart damage. They are rheumatic heart disease, coronary heart disease, and hypertensive heart disease. Rheumatic fever, which frequently attacks the heart, thus causing rheumatic heart disease, is responsible for a large percentage of all QO
1Dtcta~tb .mtmbtr~ Sangeorge, Thomas C. Kenmore, N. Y., Dec., 9,1951 Johnston, A. G., Three Forks, Mont., Oct., 1951
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heart disease at all ages and 90 per cent of heart disease in children and adolescents. Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease cause almost five times as many deaths as infantile paralysis, whooping cough, diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles and cerebrospinal meningitis combined. It is estimated that more than 1,000,000 people in the United States today are suffering from rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease. Research to combat the diseases of the heart and circulatory system is a slow and costly process. Thousands of clues must be pursued, often without profit. Thousands of skilled scientists must be employed, valuable equipment constructed. It is for these reasons, to set up the research processes necessary to combat these diseases, that the American Heart Association makes its appeal. Vol. XIII, No.2