Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-07-15 | Page 2 | Economic Loss for Typhoid Huge Sum

ECONOMIC LOSS F()R 1 TYPHOID HUGE BUM WASHINGTON, July 14. te Annual An-nual economic loss suffered by pe Triit ed States from typhoid feverind laria aggregates " .T92S.2.'U,SSi accords ing to estimates given the seiijte todajj by Senator Kansdell of Louisiria, man of the committee on pubp lipaliiW in an address on "'Rural Ileull AmoH ica's First Duty." I J "Enough money to give vijthe ar?i est navy afloat and the moj cfli'' ionti armv the world has ever sin is aM nually offered up as a sacriffe to twfl entirely preventable diseases the scoj ator said. j By comparative estimates H v3S shown that the United Stnfrs govern ment appropriated $5,016,1 o Ior lDi vestigation and prevention f diseased of animal nnd plant life, nnd omn $l,917.o(ii for investigation nd preven tion of diseases of men. f