The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-11-29
HEALTH Is WEALTH."
Lecture by DR.. Amos, OF Boston

) Lecture by DIR. Amos, or Boston
! There WIS quite n large audience present luet
, night vt tho lecture room Of tho Young Mons
! Christian Association Mt Armory Hall to hear
tho promised address Of Dr. Azel Amos Jr. m
! eminent aanitarien md scientist. Of Boston
J Mass. Tho lecture was given under tho auspices
OF tho Now Orlonns Auxiliary Sanitary AsHocln
tlon. and tho subject chosen Health la Wenlth "
Several gentlemen of the association were pres
ont on tho platform. md tho lecturer was intro
duced by Con. Cyrus Hussey. Tho General In
introducing pr. Amos briefly niludod to the
great ind peculiar interest Now Orlenns mnst
hnve In MI questions Affecting public health and
the growing sense Of tho necessity Of higher
degree Of public sanitation.
i DIR. Ames opened 10y telling tho story OF m
Eastorn king. whose love for gold prompted
him to send out all his subjects In general
| soarch for this troaaure While thus employed
| Industries OF all kinds languisled. production
WINS unknown the regal table was becoming
loss pentoons and loss bountiful. md finally
there was nothing loft to satisfy the royal nppe-
lite but dish of gold~the only product OF the
| country. Thon tho neoessity of producing
power In a country forced itself upon his mind
and ho eont hls people back to thoir plows aud
tholr workshops: agriculture md tho me-
! chanicn arts IlourIshed and tho country was
soon rehnbiiitnteu.
Health hnd It's money value. which wn5 onRIy
cnpns 10 OF computation 1t liz only In Its money
value that II Ia considered politically M IT. sig
Miles tho power OF production. Tho capacity
to create wealth Ia always In proportion to tho
henlth or tho people Nature has thrown her
glits into IN" laps OF mon. but labor and skill
are necessnry to tber development.
Tho tllat lntereat Of n State u.s. therefore, the
R Wnah a o ha poopa ,ha e "a" ., bckb
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power increases docs weal'h.
Society ia divided into two great classea-the |
producers and tho non producers. tho creator |
the amount Of tho latter among tho people tho !
heavier the burdens Of the former Sickness Is
80 are the Idle the vicious. tho insane tho do.
orepit and the infantle, Capital Ia but another
name, for labor done, and tho foundation
the Stnte has tho highest Interest in the haalth
q the people. rs the production and therefore
tho Wenth OF the State depends upon tho mum
bsr and producing capacity OF the people.
There arc three burdensome classos living
upon on, the act' yiy Of one II Is to the interest
diminished and the latter increased and thil
en- ean only be done by lessening he ca'iaation Of
machinery will frequently be- found disabled or
rendered lees effective from somo cause or
other. 70 Ihe cost. therefore q machinery
fair estimate Of tho total cost. SO also the tro-
t Queer must n reckon not only his own cost. but
that Of the HnprOducttye to whose living he
must contribute. In he producing sense man
s but machine and the expense ST the broken
and disabled must be reckoned with the gen-
eral expense.
Tho lecturer than proceeded to show by sta
tistics tho loss. suffered BY Massachua fts In
ef,rnse1uonce of premature deaths. In the
United staes. ho said, So per cent OF mass fail
% rehch maturity, and arc therefore n loss and
burden to the whole community. II is obvl-
stple. the sources of disease, which are as a
rule. the same 10 youths rs In adults. Disease
Is largely preventable. and he.eted tho opinion
n1 nat
yentable to the extent Of at least 50 per cent and
1t IT, surely desirable to limit 1t rs much ms pos-
aible not merely for Its own sake but that tho
burdens OF tho people might be reduced
He then proceeded to estimate the cost Of
sickness reckoning the Immediate expenses OF
the sick bed and the loss incurred by inability
what an epidemic might cost. but 1t Is very cor
tain that approximate prevention might be
reached at an immeasurabIy smaller cost
De then estimated tho cost of lunatfcs as
from the statistics Of Massachueetts.
Ihe cause OF disease Is, he said, lare ely owing :
20 mirroring the sources OF III health, and pco-
PIE would not have to work 90 hard for their
living il It were not for the number Of non-pro-
q aucers which they are, compelled to work for
disease Is preventable. A system Of - bile con
troll aud changes In the domestic system would \
20 much to reduce IT. as filth ia main cause Of
|luses Of disease which might be easily checked
~ failure OF properly removing refuse matter,
ne ne lcsnse given TO spreading infection, the
5thuVla arising from cutters and vaults the
lquid4 which dow from refuse matter aud MIN
hG with the soil, forming a cart OF the sur t
ouhding water. the pollution Of the ar BY GER !
ain species OF manufactures slaueht4rInp etc /
y Inetcrles, lead pipes, Indifferent food ttc
Inc lecturer urged that ii was Within the [
loNef q every communitv aud Of individuals to
essen The causes OF disease by attention To these
nafters. At the conclusion the speaA or was
YafmlY applaud-d.
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