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Show quiring psychiatric treatment. Mental illness is an important factor in many physical physi-cal diseases, including heart disease and tuberculosis, and half of all medical and surgical cases have complications of mental or emotional illness. Mental illness costs this nation at least $3 billion in direct costs. We know that just like other dread diseases, mental illness, too, can be brought under control. Medical science, sci-ence, backed by the public, has been able to conquer one disease after another, diphtheria, small pox, cholera, typhoid and others. Now it is subduing polio and tuberculosis tuber-culosis and making headway in the fight against heart disease and cancer. In the same way, medical science with public backing can conquer mental illness, too. You, as a member of the public, can do your part in overcoming the nation's number one health problem by joining and supporting your mental health association in its work. The No. 1 Health Problem Mental illness is called the nation's Number 1 health problem, and here are some of the reasons why: There are more people in mental hospitals than in all other hospitals combined. One person in every ten or 18,000,000 men, women and children are suffering from a mental disorder re- |