Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1913-10-24 | Page 3 | Annual Cost of Illness

ANNUAL COST OF ILLNESS Physician Asserts That Is Is $750,-000,000 $750,-000,000 a Year in the United States. New York. Some surprising statements state-ments were made at the meeting of the American Public Health association, associa-tion, held at Colorado Spring, by Dr. J. B. Andrews, of this city. Doctor Andrews, An-drews, who is secretary of the American Ameri-can Association for Labor Legislation, said that the annual loss in business through illness amounted to $750,000,-000, $750,000,-000, and that fully one-fourth of this loss could be prevented. .