Show SHOULD CONTROL PREVENTABLE DISEASE Prof C C. W W. Stiles of the tho United States marine marino hospital service the tho discoverer of ot tho the hookworm Is making a a. strong plea for the mothers of the nation who ho lie d declares clarel a are arc ro not sufficiently safeguarded safe safo- guarded R against suffering due to the tho f sac sac- of ot human lives Item from preventable causes What hat real encouragement ho he asks Is there to tho the American mother to bear bearmore more moio children when tho ho American father futher q t frT t L a f DR C. C I 1 permits our country to be fo so behind 1 tho the advance e In science that thal we sacrifice more moro than half halt a million American lives lI each year ear from preventable causes Recall that about thirty five thousand of hose human sacrifices are duo to that easily preventable pre filth dl disease typhoid ease typhoid re reI ever I Recall that our typhoid death rate Is about 46 In each one hundred thousand thou thou- sand Inhabitants that of or Germany German 63 and that of Switzerland 48 This means that we American men permit our country country coun coun- try to be bo about seven f times Umes as dirty as Germany German and ten times AH flit dIrt dirty as Switzerland And besides these thirty thirty- five t thousand deaths there are each year jear ear about three hundred thousand persons who contract t typhoid Recall that each h year wo but bury about one hundred and fifty thou thousand n l of ot our fel tellow tel tel- low citizens who dlo die from tuberculosis yet ct if It proper measures were enforced wo we could save these lives and this great sorrow sorrow sor sor- row to BO so mon many American mothers |