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Show WASTE INVOLVED IN ILLNESS Serious Matter to Which Far Too Little Lit-tle Attention Has Been Given by the Country. A spectacular event often attracts public attention, while routine matters o larger magnitude go unnotic-3. For stance, the whole country was recently re-cently acutely conscious of a question of wages an.mun.ting to ?r0.0X)A K. It was an important question and the sum involved was vast. But take another question involving wages the question of the illness of workers. Public health bulletin No. TG of the public health service of the Uuited States estimates on the basis of inquiries hre and abroad that the average industrial worker loses about nine days a year on account of illness. This amounts to a loss to the workers work-ers of the country, it is estimated, of $800,000,000 a year. If by better sanitation san-itation and safety devices the time could be reduced one-half, there would be a saving of $-100,000,000. Yet if is exceedingly difficult for health authorities author-ities to arouse interest in the question, siMply because it concerns everyday matters that lacks the excitement of a threatened tie-up of transportation. |