Show NEEDLESS SACRIFICE OF LIFE senator owen says are yearly victims needlessly washington that six hundred thousand lives are sacrificed angur annually efly in this country on tho the altar of ignorance and neglect of sanitary laws was waa asserted by senator owen of oklahoma in a speech in the senate on thursday thurida y in support of his bill creating a department part ment of health with a cabinet officer at its head bead mr air owens owena address was based on the theory that the various health agencies of the government should be concentrated he declared with proper attention to the prevention of contagion and to protection against again st the us use e of polluted water and impure and adulte adulterated fated food human life could bo be greatly extended in addition to the cases of fatal illness annually sir mr owen owan asserted an average of were constantly sick in this country with preventable diseases |