Show r rr 0 f k j- Hows How's Your I Health 1 f- f R 1 ODD he health is one one of t the e mos most impo important t c economic factors in nato national al life Civilization Civili- Civili ton progresses as conditions improve for forS fori S be better ter with higher standa standards s of health Three e V j million people are now sick the year round in I h United States and the annual loss to the t. t l from preventable illness and premature re I V ii death d ath amounts to While figures are staggering it represents a steadY In fact the last three r four centuries has witnessed scientific advancement ad- ad iWi that has increased the average life ight years I P In n the ie sixteenth century the average life I S 28 years Today it is 58 years and the t aim im of or science is to prolong this to 70 years Frank E. E Leslie LesUe director of the Gorgas institute in- in Jt ite predicts that the next fifty years will willi see average life increased twenty years S One of the greatest factors in preventing sickness and S premature death is personal Acknowledge k of hygiene This can best be obtained ob- ob f by dissemination of the knowledge of vV 5 his subject through every agency th that t comes I i contact with people The idea of personal I I i health should be inculcated inculcated into children from I I iQ very beginning g and carried out through the I I bi l v z I 01 of edu education and by employers I |