Show Do You Want to Die Before Your Time That is the question the sanitarians and the hygienists hurl in the teeth of mankind and the question is addressed addressed addressed ad ad- dressed not only to every state and community but to every individual man an and woman If You Want to Live We Will Show You How That is what the sanitarians and the hygienists say to ev everybody every every- ry- ry body hody whom they can shock into attention by their dread questionings ques and they prove their ability to do what the they say sar they will do by cold statistics Proportionately to population there were fewer deaths in the United States in 1910 than in 1890 This was true in the face of the fact that the death rate from chronic diseases had increased in the same twenty years ears Thus does docs sanitary science cheat preventable disease of its harvest har vest of death To Make the Whole World Well and Healthy is the purpose of the sanitarians and h hygienists who will hold their fifteenth international congress of or hygiene and demography in Washington beginning September 23 This congress which never before has been held in the United States Slates will be attended b by scientists from every civilized ci d nation who will ill tell each other of their victories victorie and defeats in their battle against again dis s and premature death How These Men Do Their Th ir Wonderful Work will be explained in iii a 1 series of articles by Frederic J J. Haskin reviewing the sanitary progress of or- orthe the past and telling in plain every day language what the hygienists have done are aloe doing and what they ther hope hoe to a accomplish On Saturday September 14 Watch for forthe forthe the First Article I c r |