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Organic heart disease

Organic heart disease meant heart disease of the valves, lining or muscle, set apart from functional heart disease; doctors were asked to name the exact kind.

Records and statistics of the time set organic heart disease against functional disease of the heart. IPUMS keeps the two apart: valvular disease and other organic heart disease in one code, functional diseases of the heart in another.

The 1911 Census Bureau manual titled one group organic diseases of the heart, covering chronic valvular disease, chronic endocarditis and fatty degeneration of the heart, and asked doctors to name the disease.

As seen in a recordCause of death line, state death certificate, 1910s to 1930s
Cause: Organic heart disease. Duration: 3 yrs.
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Daily Ancestor. "Organic heart disease." Dictionary of Old Record Words. https://dailyancestor.com/dictionary/causes-of-death/organic-heart-disease. Last checked 2026-10-12.

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