| Show ECONOMIC LOSS BY ILLNESS 8 By ay SHIRLEY W V. WYNNE N New w York Health The rhe hundreds of ot millions of dollars that have hate been spent by Industrial industrial Indus indus- trial corporations to safeguard their employees from from accident and amI illness have ha been one of their best investments In New York city the annual loss iu in wages due to absence from work on account of ot illness to exceed That loss represents only tho employees' employees side and as statistics hold that the employers suffer suITer probably third one-third more mora titan than that amount it would seem scent that the dual loss due clue to illness exceeds ls 1 at least Because of this it seems to me ate that business and health certainly have hare more in common than the average a business man or the average physician physician phy phy- thinks If preventive pre medicine has accomplished so much in public public pub pub- lic lie health work toward cutting down the city's death rate almost l BO 60 O per percent percent percent cent in the tho jest st few decades re reducing uC ng infant mt mortality and setting up medical machinery and method methods that within one generation have added fourteen years ears to the average expectation of life at birth what will it be beable beable able to do if business in general accepts it To my mind preventive medicine linked with business would not only result in the saving of the approximate a week economic loss but increase the working capacity of the worker and result in larger production and bring about a n happier more contented and more efficient group of employees |
