The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1909-03-05
TOPROL0NGHUMANL| LIFE
IMPORTANT SI]RIECT DISCUSSED in PRACTICAL
MANNER in SMALL PAMPHLET
Rocky Mountain News.1

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r. look at Bat when you dig into it. you Ind more sense aa m
ba have marked the last orty-seven presidential mess
ages with enough furnish forth the best seer lo
the next generation 1t address on the economic pe'
Tnotening Human Life speech delivered by Professor IRVING
Fisher to the association of life insurance presidents PROFESSOR
h s irving to persuade the life unite in an
effort to stamp out preventabe disease and engthen human ne
occurs to us arguments which he presented TO the lie IN
ranc presidents are good be lost wherefore we a
ize them here the general public
Some facts on situation first 1t has been proven that there
e no iron law of mortality The death rate depends on the ny
enc the community The average length OF NE IN west
er Europe has doubled $50 During the seven
teen and eighteenth human life heightened at the rate
Of four years per century During the first treequae OF the
nineteenth century the gain the OF nine per century
and at present growth Europe the rate OF about seventeen
wears per century TO put in another the baby born this
year Europe living seventeen years longer than the
baby born under similar circumstances 100 years ago
In Prussia greater being at the rate OF
years per century We suspect the Pussian tables are
somewhat vtated of that militant OF powers
in the past but gain certainly been marvellous In this
country we scarcely what doing for the reason that no
adequate record deaths kept than half the
states The of Massachusetts, indicate that life is enghen
ing there at of fourteen years per century.
That has been done in the past The many
and various Vaccination beyond doubt Anttoxn
other Probably supply furnished by modern ond
introduction of aptc surgery and the general cleanup
which achieved worth than any other three fac
tors And now be done carry the good work?
10 this question let of the figures which
Professor Fisher brought together We have published
before but have found much ygen amun
in small compass Colonel Gorgas the death
Havana sqarey by cleaning the Lawrence
Mass got rid of per Of her typhoid bills by putting
public Munich Bavaria did this and cleaned
pools beside and chopped off 81 per of her typhoid Dr. Goer
lowered the death of Rochester n " by crusade for clean
milk; and the chance open Denver New York city has
her death 1865 per thousand per year. the lowest
known for large city by cleaning her streets getting moderately
decent milk for her babies and abatng few life destroying
maintained it means that the average
New Yorker will live to be 60 years old The average dweer
Geneva the time of John Calvin lived little years
Now, in spite of all the progress made there still many
diseases known be preventabe which gather in by the
thousand each year Chief of these Five
years work by the medical authorities with cooperation
of the people would reduce the death the white plague
onequarer what it And that victory would add
the life OF the American To rid of the easily
pevenabe typhoid would add months to our
existence Hazen showed long ago that for every life
saved by abosng typhoid are saved from other
diseases Professor Fisher up the following emphatic
ment
1T least eight years could be added to human
life merely by securing reasonably pure air and milk"
How shall go about this work?
There sides the educational side and the adj
mfnisaye side To take the educational first
The American Medical association has entered on REGULAR cam
counties throughout the land notably Denver the medical
society furnishing health hints the daily papers, trying to
start courses OF lectures for popular instruction many ways
working toT the public health to the direct notable detrent
o. the doctors pocketook It only case on record in
Ech men have camponed reforms which would money
but II the most remarkable instance organized unselsess with
WHICH acquainted
he lie insurance companies have disposition to adopt
Professor Fishers suggestions and start nationwide cannan
TOT health The plan includes the establishment of central b,
@ winch shall send out literature of the easily understood
A 9 nos OF copies contemplates further the establish
@ o health laboratory speak, i'll which practical plans
Tor disease elimination shall be worked out
and OF course there always the work OF the newspapers
fi uSFai tinelt u
So much for the educational side rho l;.;...