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Show Sf IfllGE IS 1 Ike cause of i! by ens 7tw, e Insurance Presidents $'iy nowledc Would Save t I oefh thousands of Lives An-J1 An-J1 f nually m America. JITE PLAGUE IS n-IE WORST SCOURGE ri fur Financial Rural 4 Co, a ftio? redils Is Expeclcd lo Do iTtj J Away With Hih ,1 I Interest Charges. w!al) I 'International News .Service'. jj, TKW YORK, Dee, , 0. Officials Will J ;m,i representatives of life in- sunincc companies responsible 'A 5 ft,r eight billion dollars of ouf-Zj, ouf-Zj, tiding risks met at tbo Hotel AstorJ !!: fty and discussed subjects of the tltn iTc&l importance to Uic health aud inciiil welfare of the obviously do- Sent. Tim speakers did not quibble tit the fact Unit next to insuring "A In,!l" ' AV:is ncccssi,,'v t0 nn; snc-ltn snc-ltn ff01' '"c isur:iinc financier lo keep ytfl jiinsuml man from dviug. a tit; 'he foriiuil name of the gathering con! j'tlie sixth animal meeting; of the rttrj 5 icintion of the Life .Insurance ntw ifdcnts." Its jiurposo as printed on f,rtfr!l"'s w:is "Betterment of life m&l am'c srviei'-" ng ?' nri,J,t interest to city folks was tills iildress of Dr. Allan .1. Metituighliii ad bo I'niied States public health scr-rvUs scr-rvUs ? "Washington, D. C." Dr. Mebaugh-r Mebaugh-r W made the point that a campaign l :ntion coi "crning typhoid would 'uat 10,'JOO lies in fliis country an-, an-, ly. lie rati mated the economic inda fiIom ,.vPuoil lcUis at .4100,000,- -j fs Behind Euroe. 'is i rnenca lagged far behind Huropc 'j Coping t i tli this dread disease, ho if The typhoid death rate there nnd :c!? 3 he illustrated by a comparison i n't ' ., - i in, cities, as. for example: jl4 dinburir 1.:! per 100,000; .Ticrliu d tk London ".'.': Paris o.6; New York to Chicago l.'l.T; I'hiladelphia 17,; atlea hington L'.'..2 and -Minneapolis uS.7. guns J a HUH) there were more eases of JucU. j'oiil fever in (ho United States than A,a c were cases of'plague. in India, al- II c5 !K" Uidia has two aud a half times jjjli population," continued the speaker. j igt (cr.J Lphoid case is duo lu some-.rniKi some-.rniKi iguornnco or carelessness. Only icr cdui.-ation can check the ravages :hia disc.T-e and this means fho en-, en-, Toning of the people concerning the ($ Rco of the iinprojn'r disposal of sew- R'inipure milk, flies, uncontrolled' f of tvphoid. tho lilihy personal Iflo indniduals am) above all con-pK con-pK iiialcd public water supplies." cknB l ?& lite Plague Worse. initio rent as is tho havoc of typhoid, it, 1 br ikw" l:ir behind tho scourge ; (c UibcrvtiFof.is by charts exhibited by Wuhson S. Kankin, secretary of the (i 'th Carolina board of hcalll, lia-uJ lia-uJ h, . p, i : tj the aerage city 0f this country gb!J$ clcatli rate of the various diseases; feWPprculosis, LG0.:i per 100.000; diar-' Cyul diseases (nndir 'Z years olil). I00.S; typhoi.3; diphtheria. 21.1: measles. 12.": scarlet fever. IJ.ti, and whooping cough, .11.-1. Tjui average death rate in cities from all cases is fifteen. Dr. Kankin insisted that publicity was tho chief weapon against diseaso and death, that a city should not only keep niinure vilal str.tisticiJ. but should have them kept constantly in public view. He told how one "sick" city in the south was practically restored to health by finding out what diseases were killing off its inhabitants. ''Applied vital statistics, therefore, furnish tho only check fho people can have on their health ollie.es. the only means by which they can discriminate between the true and the counterfeit," said Dr. Kankin. "If a health ollicer has been employed for two or three years and can show no influence on the death rates of his jurisdiction it is tiuio to make a change in the health office." of-fice." ' '.l!he adaptation of a plan for financial rural credits in this country, fashioned somewhat after thoso in force abroad, and the creation of a life insurance to cover indebtedness in the event of borrower's bor-rower's death, were advocated by Myron My-ron T. Merrick, United Slates embassador embassa-dor to France. N Farmers Pay Interest. "ICvcry year our fanners are spending ?i.'iU."UU.00o more for Interest than would he I he easy If they were ablet to enjoy the benefits ot a mortae lnnuraiiec system, sys-tem, such ax the KalTfu tscn of C5er-muny," C5er-muny," Mr. llcnicl; walit. "In what belter bel-ter way could the billions of tho life insurance in-surance companies bo invested than In linancing Iho farmers, who largely produce pro-duce the wealth of the nation. Such a oyslein should carry with II a provision by which the farmer who borrows lifo Insurance money insures the life, at tho -saino tlnio and thus snfetcuards his family us well as the general community from loss' Jesse K. Clark, president of tho Union Central Jjifo Insurance company, which, ho said, has a greater proportion of its asKet.s Invested In Tnoitjje loans on farms than any other company, said: "The I'armliip; industry has kept pace with the wonderful development of com-meivu com-meivu mid manufactures of this country. coun-try. Hack to tin: farnr Is becoming more ami more popular with the youngMimn on the threshold of his Iirewoik." William T. TCmuictt. NoV York stale supeilntoridetit of insurance, said there should be a tacit understanding among states that chi-Ii will give Its own life Insurance companies -such supervision that It will be unnecessary for oilier suites to impose further restrictions upon them. Ocorge 15. Id p. president of the Homo Life Insurance company, snld there should he complete publicity of all tho Investment Invest-ment business of life Insurance, companies compa-nies to prevent inside cliques from speculating. |
