Show Health Department I the work of ot a all l the health agencies m at be co and properly I J directed there directed there must be team work Preventive medicine has hns already dy f ir accomplished much Iri iii country J r jt by cumulative and continuous rath rath- rather er than spasmodic and desultory measures In 1900 the general genera death rate from all causes In the United States was In 1917 the tho latest figures available It had been een reduced to In 1900 typhoid fever caused n. n a adeath adeath death rate of at for each of at population In 1917 the the rate had been reduced to 13 4 Diphtheria was reduced from 3 4 to In Inthe Inthe inthe the same period Tuberculosis declined declined declined de de- from 1905 deaths for tor each of at population In 1900 to 1464 In 1917 Had the 1900 rate proy prevailed prevailed-In ned In typhoid fever diphtheria ria a and d tuberculosis In 1917 these three diseases alone would have caused more deaths than actually actually actually ac ac- occurred Preventable disease cost the United United United Unit Unit- r ed States less in 1917 than it would had the health conditions of at twenty years ago pro- pro Four hundred thousand fewer deaths occurred in 1917 than would have had hud the 1900 de death nth rate prevailed Annual illness of ot workers workers work work- ers still still costs costs t this ls country 2000 each year One man In Ine e every ery three called by the army was found to be physically unfit Surgeon General Rupert Blue of I the United States Public Health SerI Service Service Ser Ser- vice gave out these figures today In I urging a plan for wide nation conservation conservation conservation con con- of health Ho has written to state and city health officers to the American Red Cross the American Ameri Ameri- can Medical association and other such health agencies suggesting a conference in Washington to consider consider consider con con- sider a n health which the experts of or the Public Health Service have been preparing for tor months lie He points out that to suc succeed eed further t |