Show preventable WASTE OF LIFE by 0 M CLARK X D out our knowl knowledge edge has certainly increased as to communicable diee AGOB spread by contagion within the last few years we save eave hundreds of 0 lives by strict sanitation vaccination and quarantine the mortality children is steadily increasing while that among the middle and old age Is ie increasing by leaps and bounds mr E E rittenhouse of at now new york has written a pamphlet showing the do crease waste of life from non noa comman cable maladies of the heart kidneys brain and blood vessels professor irving iraln fisher on national vitality says bays that over six six hundred thousand human lives in the united states are need lessly sacrificed every year and about three million persons are constantly serio seriously ugly ill more than one hilt half of these illnesses are preventable the death rate from noa isable diseases due to overwork overeating over drinking overplaying overuse of tobacco and leading the atren aarena S bous life is greatly on the increase in proof of this the following facts are cited the death rate for consumptives ivea ives in the united states has haa decreased forty nine per par cent since 1880 abilo the death rate from diseases of ki kidneys has baa increased crea fled one hundred and 0 thirty one per cent in the same length length of time both aro preventable but oon consumption is in in factious kidney trouble is not heart trouble has increased fifty soven per cent apoplexy eighty four per cent while in ti england and wales all have decreased seven per cent we try to protect a man from a disease which ano therman another man might give him but without the elig ilig hest bost help per permit him to die of a disease which he unknowingly gives give s himself As an a remedy for existing conditions mr rittenhouse RUten houBa urges that the stute state inaugurate a systematic and permanent campaign of aduca education anfor for the prevention of all kinds by the disi trib ution of heal health bulletins us the liberal uso use of health and medical inspectors and brother by other methods he also suggests I 1 that the state provide free medical exi ami laminations nAtions periodically for any who way may desire them for the purpose of do d teching disease in time to check and curdt cure it this plan biati he says would enlarge the work of the health department and would require an increased staff of inspectors and medical examine examiners rR but this wouldga would ba well within the bo bounds of reason and would be amply justified I 1 b by Y I 1 the results mr Ritten houses pamphlet isa is a moist moat significant and encouraging evide evidence nce of at the rapid growth of public opinion in favor of the prevention of disease and the conservation of life when it is once thoroughly realized realize dby by business organizations izat ions ione and commercial interests that the present waste of life means an enormous loss not only to tho iho countley at I 1 large but also to the business interests themselves itera will be taken to prevent vent the waste of life and energy which has haa been going on unchecked this subject is of interest not only to capital capit st as 88 represented by life insurance comp companie anix and invested interests but also to argau organized labor since a large abare of the preventable loss through sickness and lealh death falls on the laboring boring a man and his bis family |