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Show NEEDLESS SACRIFICE OF LIFE. Senator Owen Says 600,000 Are Yearly Victims Needlessly. Washington That six hundred thousand thou-sand lives are sacrificed annually In this country on tho altar or Ignorance and neglect of sanitary laws was asserted as-serted by Senator Owen of Oklahoma In a speech In tho senate on Thursday In support of his bill creating a department de-partment of hoalth, with a cabinet officer of-ficer nt Its head. Mr. Owen's address was based on tho theory that tho various vari-ous health agencies of the government should bo concentrated. Ho declared with proper attention to tho prevention preven-tion of contagion and to protection against the use of polluted wnter and lmpuro nnd adulternted food, human life could bo greatly extended. In addition ad-dition to tho 600,000 cases of fatal Illness Ill-ness annually, Mr. Owen asserted an nvcrago of 3,000,000 were constantly sick In this country with preventable diseases. |