The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-30
News of the Insurance World

have a splendid educational value. Al
the same time the farmers son was
physician. To whom could the wife turn
for help?
There is more typhoid fever in this
country than In any other civilized land
The annual total Is 30 900 deaths and over
$50. 900 cases. This Is national dis
grace and is due entirely TO lack OF
education on the subject We probably
know more about typhoid and its meth
DDS OF spread, and the means for its
control than we do OF any other disease.
Yet right here in our capital city there
is an excessive amount OF typhoid. and
this sad story finds repetition In all our
large cities. If tho public were taught
to fear typhoid as it does a case of
cholera there would soon be an end
OF It..
In connection with the foregoing IL is
interesting to note that during the week
the United States senate passed reso-
luton authorizing the appointment OF q
committee To investigate and report upon
the Insurance laws now in force in the
District OF Columbia.
Responsibility Of Employers,
Accidents happening 10 worllmen and
other employees engaged in the work ol
building in the factories and workshops
and in hundred and one other places
are the source OF much worry 10 con-
tractors and employers throughout the
country, in that they arc frequently com
pcilcd TO pay heavy damages on account
of accidents Detailing those in their en-
ploy.
England France and Canada have a
special act known as 1.-The wortmen s
Compensation act" which provides com
pcnsation for the person injured and fixes
certain amount PAYABLE those de-
pendent, upon him: when tic accident
causes death, The meaning or the item
accident" and the facts in which an
accident is TO be considered as happen
ing have not always been clearly de-
fined but in England the house OF lords
In low isl
accident" means "a mishap or unto
ward event not expected or designed
In the case at issue IL was held that
the death of an employee through heart
disease must he regarded under the pro
visions Of the English law as having been
caused by accident
The accident insurance companies car
ryinS employers liability. and who in
case OF unfaVorable court decision, have
TO pay most, If not all. Of the damages
yand costs of litigation regard This latest
decision in n most untavorablc light. and
the general opinion IS that tho American
companies writing this class of insur-
ancc in England will either have to dis
continue H. altogether or charge n much
larger premium Tor the business.
A Timely Warning.
Moving picture shows arc regarded as
hazardous risks by all fro insurance
companies: but the objection is being
greatly eliminated, il ls understood, by
the adoption of new type OF Blm, II
nnammable and as explosive as gun cot =
ton, but the new fm. like The old in
appearance, has been put 10 q severe test
and declared non -combusliblc. In speak
Ing of the matter. a fire insurance au-
thority has this TO say;
There is apparently no difficulty in
procuring the new type and II certainly
Is incumbent uDon municipalities TO re-
quire lis use. and thus greatly diminish
If not entirely do away with the hazard
10 life and property that accompanies
the use Of the present film. Fire boards
everywhere should sec that regulations
arc adopted To require the exchange OF
old for tho new. old ones are being re-
tired as fast as they become injured and
arc replaced by the manufacturers with
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