The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-13
Important to Men of Moderate
Means.

N1caNSs
When the roll of graduates of our
medical schools is placed before the
public, we are inclined to exclaim.
'what amount Of sickness and accident
can furnish employment or business to
| this army OF physicians, where will they
| find place to make and sell their pills
| and poWdersW 70 the average person
the matter OF the amount of sickness
| and accidents among men, IS an un-
known quantity ana many intelligent
persons, even, will be much more sur
prlsed IN perusinS the statistics of sick
ness than those Of morLauUy, for the
latter have been more or less prominent
before the American people for the last
quarter of a century through the tables
and reports of the various Life lusur.
ance companies. Because our atten-
tion, or at least that of most OF US, is not
brought continuously in contact with
the elck man as with the dead, we
are inclined to think that the
former Is in an Infinitely small mi
nUrlty, and that there is little for the
pnyslcian to do, ami that his office is q
si1ecure. DO you know that between
the ages OF twenty and seventy wears
the number of days sickness per annum
to each man is from seven days at former
age TO iorty-three at the latter, and yet
this significant fact is scarcely known
beyond Ine report, OF The medical socie-
t.esF A contemplation OF this most im-
portant TACT VIII naturally lead to the
Irqui as TO tne proportion or amount
oI sickness to the rate of mortality. rue
SICK man, 1T is tIue, ls not published
aud the COnValescent not advertised
Our daily journals have no column for
accidents ana illness, and the call otthe
phys. clan ls known only TO himself and
LAe patent to Wnom he administers.
The death list that a pears from time to
time reveals 10 the managers Of beneVu-
Lent and friendly societies only the long
Train OF sickness and acCiueAu that pre-
ceded or accompanied those latal terml-
nations. WHAT these managers or stu
denls Of statis les Know of these
Iacts it is laWlul and proper for
the people to know. For every deaLL
there Is an average of Two ana one-uali
years OF sickness among men. IL this
nothing: Are these long and weary
months of no cOnsiG iGeratiOn 10 the status
tlcian and student OF fsures, the pnilau-
thrOpI5t and medical man, aud political
economist? Let us See. The Life Iu-
surance companies OF our country re-
port that during the year 1876 there were
nearly 10000 OF their members who died:
applying ne usual ruIG TO tnis, ana we
have sum total OF $4,000 years of SICK
ness and accident among their policy
holders, who number III round figures
SOO,0O0 persons, in one year; aEd the
same proportion applied to the total
olulatlon of the United States would
make l, 25O, 900 years Of sickuess and ac-
cldent among the peop.e Of our country
III one year; and even more than tni
Tor the above mortality is among class
of selected lives. These facts, starLnna
and wonderful as they are, an
staring Us in the face as the,
have been, have not been pu,
before the public. They have
not been considered matter oI
interest to the ctzen, and yet they ell.
ter into the daily consideration of the
sufferers with as mucl CERTAINTY, and
BRING IN their tram AZ much sorrow an
woe DIS the grim vlsageu mons er" nun
sell. A calm ana serious survey OF tn,
facts will open field for Investigation
before "nlch even the question oi NOR
tdHty must show the Knee" There 10
In our midst Society tnat has prubeu
these laccs TO the bottom, anu the prac-
ticai result is the estaDiishment OF tn
Deposit and Benefit Society" Ia on
city. 'Ils true that we can net always