T HE factors giving rise to elevated blood pressure have been intensively studied in clinic and laboratory, but seldom in relation to other findings in a general population. It therefore seemed useful to undertake a general study of medical examinations performed in rural Cattaraugus County with a view to ascertaining what the small group with this finding might show in greater or less degree than the total examined sample. The medical records used for this study were made under the auspices of the Milbank Memorial Fund and the United States Public Health Service at an examining clinic in a rural area of Cattaraugus County, New York. The farm and small village inhabitants of the neighborhood were invited to attend for a health examination, and about a fifth of the population attended. While some undoubtedly came to verify a suspicion of illness, it is felt that a large proportion came in a spirit of cooperation. A more detailed statement of the type of individual examined and of the method of examination will be found elsewhere.2

The Diagnosis of Syphilis by the General Practitioner Ralph E. Wheeler CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.28.10.1244-b Published Online: August 29, 2011

Whooping Cough in Surveyed Communities Edgar Sydenstricker, and Ralph E. Wheeler CopyRight*Read before the Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association at the Sixty-fourth Annual Meeting in Milwaukee, Wis., October 7, 1935. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.26.6.576 Published Online: August 29, 2011