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Show THE LOW COST OF GOOD HEALTH i Recently we discussed the high cost of dying. We arrived at the conclusion conclu-sion that preventable sickness and , death cost the people of Utah more than $5,000,000 each year in addition to suffering and sorrow. This week i we will consider the low cost of health I protection. j The health of a community is large- : ly what the people of that community j will make it. Climate and other na- j tural factors may make the task easier I or harder, but the human element j is the deciding factor. Witness what has been done in Havana, in Panama and other places where the health I workers have had a free hand. j There are six essentials for the safeguarding safe-guarding of health. 1. Safe water supply. 2. Propor disposal of human waste 3. Proper living conditions. 4. Frequent examinations by physicians phy-sicians to detect and check any tendency tend-ency to disease. 5. Prompt and adequate medical k attention when sick. 6. Proper care to prevent communicable com-municable diseases from being trans- ' mitted from the sick to the well. A good water supply is often costly. Eut an epidemic of typhoid fever, for example, may cost in one year's sickness and death far more than the entire cost of an adequate and safe water system. ' The same may be said of a sewer system. It is folly to neglect to provide pro-vide such a system for the sake of economy. Clean houses, well lighted and ventilated ven-tilated and not overcrowded ;do not cost much more than the other kind. The resulting health and happiness repay the greater cost many times over. Good food, properly prepared, is not 'much more expensive than poor food. Fresh air is free to all who will take it. It is much cheaper to pay the doctor doc-tor to keep you well than to go through a serious illness. One visit from the doctor today may save many visits from him later. . A little thought and watchfulness and strict obedience to the quarantine regulations will protect' the well from the sick. In fact, the cost of protecting the health of a community is extremely small in comparison to the cost of sickness and death. Why wilt we continue con-tinue to pay a heavy price for disease which brings suffering and sorrow when for one- tenth the cost we could have health and happiness and greater wealth, |