Show LIFE AND PROPERTY The New York Sun g gives es the following figures figures figures fig fig- ures The state of New York spends for health preservation the munificent sum of 1 cent per annum annum annum an an- num for each of f its inhabitants Massachusetts 1 spends 2 Indiana 17 Kansas 27 etc There Thero is not one city health board that obtains enough mone money to carry on a successful fight with disease disease dis dis- ease case and death despite the fact that most cities are provided with efficient generals for the battle Fifty of the most mot important cities in the country in iii 1911 averaged an expenditure for the thc prevention tion of disease and md loss of life 30 per pcr cent per annum for each caell inhabitant while the per capita capita cap eap- ita average av rago spent for preventing fires was The number of preventable deaths deaths' was involving an economic loss of These figures arc compiled from data like the following Indianapolis spent for fire prevention per pcr capita for disease prevention pre 14 11 Portland Or 01 spent for fire prevention and 15 cents for disease prevention per por capita J Louisville spent for far r r fires 12 2 cents for health healt h Providence Plo R. R I. I spent for 11 c cents per capita for health It is by jy such figures that the Sun proves that property is more valuable than human life and that the cities of our country governed by righteous righteous right right- coils and able men spend ten times as much to try Iry to save saYe property as they do 10 to try ty to save human life If a building is unsafe they lucy make maIm the owner repair it if there is a waif in the streets starving to death they let him starve stane And it is as it was Mans inhumanity to toman toman man alan makes countless thousands mourn It |