The Detroit times., 1910-04-22
The Value Of Life in
Dollars and Cents and
the Duty Of the State
Why Shouldn't the State Be AS
Solicitors for a Life AS is An
Insurance company-The In
dividuai Must Cooperate
The Corporation Will Not.

guarded against because they
communicable speaker by chronic invadsm and
lives by pevntabe disease
estimated to be billion and a half dollars year.
showed giving the number of days
per be expected from Is to 49,
Assuming that this experienced the total illness suffered
from age rs 65 would about a year and half
After dwelling upon the financial loss during that time in
bills ineciency pointed that the moral
really consideration
against disease poverty immortality and crime
The remedy suggested had phases:
of people health bulletins published at
stated intervals and distributed gratis.
Second free medical examination detect disease each nd
vidua who desires it, stated periods these benefits be supplied by
the state.
the degeneave dis
the public the Importance of attending to
them.
should be given.
The agricultural departments of the all
through territory farmers how
shouldn't the health departments employ men to tell the people
how grow and womena
point by Cunningham his remarks that it
too late to Think about the gasoline the wodshed after
it has exploded and burned down the kitchen
Two adages well here.
One is "a stitch time nine"
prevention worth pound of cure
That awakening regards the danger confronting the
human diseases other than those that communicable and
possible with the
prevention indicated by the action of life
Cunningham spoke authorizing free medical examination
each year such poicyhoders desire it.
object the life company of plain
Life thing that the insurance values in dollars and
where the state all too often does not
however life in it, and the
should move it take the same precautionary
suggestion medical examination of states people and
Of their fullest enlightenment the matter of their health there
without fullest consideration and without
steps being taken the direction of making it fact
Commenting upon Cunninghams Detroit Medical
suggests the heads OF
manufacturing industrial adopt for their
ennlove noff free medica
Here however be little hope of cooperation
might where manufacturer could be IN
erested the question his hired health but long as the h
locked he there another ready to take
his when dies there little chance OF general ens
of the big manufacturers
dealing with who
the exploiting the strength of bodies with his an
sanitary employment of boys and girls sweat
shops who already opposed and defiance Of the state
its present aims for the physical welfare of the people
anything like hopeful candidate for joining hands
with any Cunningham
gests
The railroads inspect and they
pair them because costs replace engines and
They can't be held guilty of contrutory negligence and cast
aside without effect the dividends like when their health
fails or they lose leg an o a head.
The Medical Journal suggests that it for the
charitable societies like the Y NJ C follow.
this WORK HUMANITY in which life
thing only FOR FUMAN INTEREST IN IT.
corporation will take part
Simmered down the question of
individual first be
His interest is therefore matter for the the
state holds his life of value and the should and does
1t for the then educate individual and