Show stated in cold figures it costs on an average about to cure an incipient consumptive or to care tor an advanced case of tuber cu losis until death it he is left in des circumstances without proper attention he will surely infect with his disease at least two other persons and possibly more considering that the aver ige life is worth to society in dollars and cents about 1 the net loss which would accrue to a corn by not treating its poor con sump tives in proper institutions would be for each case including those who are unnecessarily infected at the very lowest figure 4 on this basis it the poor consumptives in the un ted states who are now sick were segre gated from their families and either kept in institutions until they d ed or else cared of their disease the sav ing to the country would be the enor sum of 1 |