Show 00 DEATH CAUSED EATHER BY WEATHER CHANGES In a II study ot or weather and Its relation to human life Ufe Professor E a Huntington of ot Yale estimates that sudden and violent changes lii In weather I are ar responsible Co for deaths a II year car In the United States The professor proCessor says the largest ratio of ot losses occurs In the warmest cities and was lowest in the coolest cities The average ranged from 26 deaths per thousand In the six coolest cities to 52 per thousand in th the warmest cities Fluctuations of ot th the death rate from day to da day eek eek to week depend upon the weather far more than upon any other single cause he continued But Dut if it the death rate fluctuates EO so does coes the rate of disease and so docs does the rate rat of all au the little colds headaches di- di digestive di dl digestive gestl e disorders and tho the like i which makes the difference be- be between be between tween reen feeling fine flue and feeling grouchy grouch Professor ProCessor Huntington who places an economic value of on the th life liCe of or each person point point- pointed pointed ed out that unless the deaths happened to touch us Individually we did not notice how greatly they disturbed our financial situ situation atlon That is s merely because we w are sUit sUll extraordinarily stupid he said It U cows should be killed by bad weather within a afew afew few days das or if it people should perish in an earthquake almost everybody would be b talking about It But Dut because the th weather weather er takes its toll quietly we do not notice the great strain Nevertheless Nevertheless less the country is just that much poorer than if it the weather had been normal In reality our ac activities i U are interrupted as ba as if it a halt half billion dollars were suddenly ruthlessly and indis- indis indiscriminately indis indiscriminately seized by the tho govern govern- government government ment for tor taxes |