Abstract
In 1923, 1924, and 1925, Dr. T. Duckett Jones and I analyzed 3,000 cardiac cases in New England to determine the relative prevalence of the various kinds of heart disease.<sup>1</sup>One thousand occurred in hospital patients, of whom 500 were outpatients and 500 were ward patients; 1,000 occurred in patients from the practices of 10 able internists (100 consecutive cases each), and 1,000 were consecutive cases from my own consulting practice. Twenty-five years later, in 1948, 1949, and 1950,I collected another 3,000 cases in exactly the same way. The table shows the relative incidence of the various types of heart disease that occurred in each series. In the first series, we found that the greatest percentage were cases of rheumatic heart disease, with hypertensive heart disease second and coronary heart disease, as represented by angina pectoris and coronary thrombosis, third. At that time, we included under the designation "arteriosclerotic"
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