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 are
communicable speaker nvasm and
productive lives impaired by pventabe disease
estimated o a billion and a half dollars year.
Cunningham showed charts giving the number of days
illness to be expected at each from Is to 49,
Assuming this average experienced illness suffered
age o 65 would about year half.
After dwelling the financial loss during that time
doctors bills and general necncy pointed that the moral
really the should the consideration
against disease to against poverty immortality and crime
The remedy suggested had phases:
people bulletins published
and distributed gratis
medical disease each ndi
desires periods these benefits be supplied by
the state
The degeneratve dis
and arouse the general public to the Importance OF attending to
them.
In connection with the a popular
should be given
agricultural departments the various send lecturers all
through territory farmers how
Why shouldn't health departments employ to tell the people
how grow and women
The point driven home by Cunningham that it
lis Think about keeping the gasoline the wodshed after
it has exploded and burned down the kitchen.
Two adages well here
N is, "A stitch in time nine
another prevention worth pound of
regards the danger confronting the
other than those that communicable and
they guarded against possible with the
prevention indicated the action of life insurance
Cunningham spoke authorizing free medical examination
year such polcyholders desire it.
The object Of the life insurance is, of course, plain
Life thing that the values in dollars and
where the all too often does
There value to the state however to every life in it, and the
economy should take the precautionary
suggestion medical of people and
enlightenment the their health there
without fullest consideration and without
steps being taken In the direction OF making it a fact
Commenting The Detroit Medical
Journal farther and would stand hand the heads OF
large manufacturing industrial adopt for their
employees a system of free medical examination.
Here however there would be little hope Of cooperation
might where large manufacturer could be in
his hired health but the hired
locked fol the day he sick and there another ready take
his lie dies there little chance general enlist
of the big manufacturers
When the big manufacturer dealing with who
the majority exploiting the strength bodies with his un
sanitary workroom and the employment of boys and girls sweat
who already stands opposed and defiance the state III
its present aims for the physical welfare of the people.
He far from anything like hopeful candidate for joining hands
gsts.
The railroads inspect they
pair them, because it replace engines and
They can't be held guilty of cOnbuoy negligence and cast
aside without effect the dividends like when their health
fails or they lose a leg a head
The Medical Journal that for the
charitable societies like the NJ the W follow,
For this is WORK OF HUMANITY which a life s worth
thing only INTEREST IT. work in which the
corporation will take
smmered question one in which the
individual must first be interested.
His interest therefore, matter of the
state holds his life of value and the should
is for the state then educate
having interested him. provide the
following the directions of such body
There question public good
OF country than the health Of its people and the their
lives