Abstract
About one-half of the patients with chronic heart disease with decompensation are of an age at which the earning capacity should be at its maximum and family responsibilities are likely to be most pressing. These individuals are afflicted with a disease which causes partial disability for years, and total disability extending, on the average, over a year and a half. In a single dispensary one-third of the families represented were dependent upon charity for their sustenance. Figures have been presented from two institutions which show that the economic loss, private and public, covering only a fraction of the patients with heart disease in one of our large cities must be estimated in hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.
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