Show Stated In Cold Figures It costs on an average about 250 to cure an Incipient consumptive or to care for an advanced case of tuberculosis tuber-culosis until death It he is left in destitute des-titute circumstances without proper attention he will surely Infect with his disease at least two other persons and possibly moro Considering that the average life Is worth to society In dollars and cents about 1500 tho net loss which would accrue to a community com-munity by not treating its poor consumptives con-sumptives In proper Institutions would be for each case Including those who are unnecessarily Infected at tile very lowest figure 4250 On this basis If I the poor consumptives in tho United States who are now sick were segregated segre-gated from their families and either kept in Institutions until they died or else cured of their disease the saying say-ing to the country would bo tho enormous enor-mous sum of 1275000000 |