Show THE HIGH COST OF DYING consider the high cast t of dying and forget for a few minutes the ugh high cost coat of living each year more the han 1500 per persona die in utah from preventable causes cause the cost of the these 1500 1 unnecessary funerals a lone probably amounts to more re than or about four times the an nual appropriation to the state board of health most at of 1 these H deaths are prom proceeded eded by long coatis illnesses which must be added to the high cost of dying the people of utah probably pay Ini trach year on account of these unnecessary deaths at least one fourth million dollars we must take account also of the value to the community and to the state of these libeg lives about which we seem so indifferent what is the life of a man or w woman n or c child I 1 odete worth in cold blo blooded figures g 1 1 of f dol del ser aye lara lam and cents A conservative 1 es dimate puts puta the value of an adult workman at five thousand dollars that means mean that every able bodied bodice workman is 13 worth on an average of 0 five thousand dollars to the state for the wealth he can produce since many of thew these who he die through our neglect are not producers it is esti 1 mated that the average economic value of thew these lives is seventeen hundred dollars this amounts to more than two and one half million dollars waste thus it appears appear that the people of uth low lose each ear about two million dollars through needless deaths and this cost of dying is only a part of the toll oe 0 preventable dis die eases there are probably about ten cases of disabling cases of sick ness for each death beath from presenta preterit enta it ble causes probably one half million dollars is spent each year in n the care of these cases we must take into account also the loss of prodie tive labor due doe to needless diseases everyday every day that a workman is idle on an account of sickness he and his family are poorer by the amount he should have earned that day al also the state is poorer by the amount he should have produced an in vesti gation of this subject object was recently made in Milem milwaukee ulce which has a population about equal to the P po i potation pu lation of the whole of utah it was estimated that the workmen of milwaukee lose annually more than three million dollars in wages alone on account of sickness there are no statistics on this subject for utah but one million milli dollar wage in loss annually through preventable s sick k ness would be a conservative esti est mate for this state the yearly money loss los to the people of utah from preventable sick ness and death is probably more than five million dollars more than ten dollars for every man woman and child in the state far greater even yen is at the he cost in suffering and sor row which cannot be expressed in figures and for which no money val us ue can c compensate 0 there wes was a tine rome when men might fold their hands bands and say this thia is the hand of providence ne as are helpless and blameless but not so today this terrible toll of sickness and death more than one third the total amount of sickness and death in the state can be prevented ED do you want to stop this bremen doua done in loss of 0 wealth and burns human vie el fare it cin can be done some day dav it will be done why not do it now nowa succeeding articles of this series serea will tell how bow it can be accomplished |