Show The Cost Sickness I think then that we can not escape es-cape from the reasons to believe that we lose in England and Wales every year in consequence of sickness 20 000 000 weeks work or say as much work as 20000000 healthy people would do iu a we k The number is not easily grasped by the mind It is equal to about one fortieth part of the work done in each year by the whole population between fifteen and sixtyfive years old Or try to think of H in money Bather more than half of it is lost by those whom the RegistrarGeneral names the domestic tbe agricultural and the inJutrial classes These are more than 7500000 in number and they lose about 11000000 weeks say for easy reckoning at 1 a week and here is a loss of 11000000 sterling from what should be the annual wealth of I the country For the other classes who are estimated as losing the other 9 000 000 weekb work it would to bard and unfair to make a guess in i any known cjin for these include out great merchants our judges and lawyers law-yers and medical men our statesmen and chief legislator they include our poets and writers of all kinds musicians musici-ans painters and philosophers and out ounces who certainty do more for the wealth and welfare of the country coun-try tnan can be told in moneyS JAMES PAGET in Popular Science Monthly |