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Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 07:09:46 EDT

Thursday July 30 ,2009 Troy Record Article 100years ago Friday, July 30,
1909.
“Fewer Trojans died in 1908 than in 1907, according to the annual report
issued today by City Health Officer Calvin E. Nichols,while tuberculosis
remains the number-one killer of Collar City residents.Nichols has been the
health officer since 1900. He ran for mayor as a Democrat in 1905 and narrowly
lost the city election to the current incumbent,Elias P. Mann. The Record
today publishes a summary of Nichols’s ninth annual report.A total of
1,542 people died in Troy last year, Nichols reports. That number itself is 84
less than
the mortality total for 1907, but the number of actual Troy residents who
died is somewhat smaller. Out of the total number of deaths, 215 were
non-residents. That makes the actual Troy mortality rate 17.05 per
1,000 people, a number Nichols considers normal.“As is always the case,
consumption takes the lead” among fatal diseases, Nichols states.
Tuberculosis claimed 198 Trojans in 1907. The second most common cause of
death,pneumonia, claimed 145 people,followed by 139 deaths from heart disease. Compared
to statistics for the 21st century, cancer is relatively low on the list.
Nichols attributes a total of 68 deaths to “all forms” of cancer.
Friday July 31, 2009TroyRecord Article 100years ago Saturday, July 31,
1909.
“Nervousness is called the disease of Americans, and probably nervousness
is more rife in America than anywhere else in the world,” The Record
reports today.The reasons for widespread American nervousness, the author writes, “
are very easy to see, and reside in those circumstances which distinguish
American life and customs from those of other nations….It is not an
inheritance, but it is the striving induced by surrounding conditions – the
desire to be something supposed by the individual to be better and beyond that
which he has or his parents had.”These conditions don’t exist,as a rule, in
the so-called Old World, where “after ages of struggles, everything has
come to a stop.” In the U.S., “there is a constant ferment, and
whether one will or no he is drawn into the struggle and the wear and tear
of it after a time frazzles the nerves.”How can you tell if you’re falling
victim to nerves? “Sleeplessness and loss of appetite are the first
symptoms,” our expert notes, “indigestion follows, then comes a lack of power to
concentrate the mind.
“In the first place, it may be that you are using stimulants, tea and
coffee in excess,” the columnist suggests, “if you are a man you are probably
smoking too much.”More important, this article argues, is a change in daily
routine.“If your life is very humdrum, and you see little chance of varying
it, use your imagination, as do the children in their play, and make a
change in that way. “An ancient hymn writer
declares that the sweeping of a floor can be done to the glory of God.
On the same page, Rosanna Schuyler attempts to explain “Why Girls Should
Not Attend Amusements With Married Men.”“An error made by many girls who
stay in town in summer is in permitting themselves too
much leeway in the matter of attending places of entertainment,” Schulyer
observes, “to go to restaurants and roof gardens with a married man, and
consider it proper simply because his wife is out of town,is one of the
gravest mistakes that a girl can make.“For as a rule the man will either drop
her when his wife
returns or what is even worse, may wish to continue to take her to places
of amusement.The latter condition can be called nothing but clandestine,and
the criticisms to which girls so placed are subjected are such
as would make their ears tingle if they have any sense of refinement.”




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