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BLOXOM: LIVE
Figures released by the state health department today revealed that heart disease and cancer--in that order- killed more Texans in 1967-68 than anything else. Strokes...then traffic accidents...were third and fourth. The report also noted that pneumonia
moved from
- -- sixth to fifth
place in the list of top killers for the two- year period.
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.).[News Script: Deadly statistics in Texas],
script,
October 16, 1970, 6:00 p.m.;
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1271220/m1/1/:
accessed July 17, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.