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Show CONSTANT DRAIN ON NATION Cost of Tuberculosis and Other Preventable Pre-ventable Diseases Has Been Put Into Figures. While state commissions and other oodies are trying lo find a method for reducing the cost of life insurance. Prof. James W. Glover of the University Uni-versity of Michigan demonstrates that every policy-holder of a $10,000 ordinary or-dinary whole life policy could save about $20 a year on his premiums if tuberculosis and typhoid fever were eliminated. Tuberculosis alone causes a loss to such a policy holder of from $16.70 at twenty to $17.50 at the age of sixty. At age of twenty, with tho present high death rate from tuberculosis, tubercu-losis, this one disease alone shortens the complete expectation of life by two years and 15S days. While the death rate from tuberculosis seems to be declining, the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis Tuber-culosis says that the combined effort of every man, woman and child is necessary nec-essary to bring about a radical reduction reduc-tion in life insurance rates such as Professor Glover has indicated. |