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Show En Enormous Expense. Tho expenso of tuberculosis to tho peoplo of tho United States, after careful estimation by Dr. Biggs of Now York, Is placed at $300,000,000 says tho American Medicine. Ho first calculates tho loss to Now York city by putting a valuo of $1,500 upon each llfo at tho average ago at which deaths from tuberculosis occur. This gives a total valuo of tho lives lost annually of $1,500,000. But this Is not all, for at least clno months prior to death these patients cannot work, and the loss of service at $1 a day together with food, nursing, medi-clncti, medi-clncti, attendance, etc., at $1.50 a day, results In a ftuthcr loss of $S,000,000, making a yearly loss to tho municipality munici-pality of $23,000,000. From tho wholo country tho 150,000 deaths from tuberculosis represent In tho samo way a loss of $330,000,000. Dr. Dlggs also says that tho total expenditure expen-diture In tho city of Now York In the enro of tuberculosis patients Is not over 500,000 a year, i. c., not to exceed ex-ceed 2 per cent of tho actual loss by death, otc. "If this annual expenditure expendi-ture wero doubled or trebled, It would mean a saving of several thousand lives annually, to say nothing of tho enormous saving In suffering." Further Fur-ther ovldonco of this is shown in tho fact that In tho last twenty years tho total dcatiiB from tuberculosis in Now York havo been decreased instead of Increased, nott "islanding that there has been nn l .oreaso of 70 per cent In tho general population. |