The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-01-21
TAKES ANNUAL TOLL OF 35,oos
SAYS MEDICAL EXPERT
OF HARVARD.
INSURANCE MEN TALK
On Public Health and Means Of Pre-
venting Disease-Dwight Says
Insurance Companies
Great Help.

washington, Jan. 2n.--"TheTe IA
more typhoid fever in this country
than in any other civilized iand,' said
DR.. Fl. j Rosenau OF the Harvard
Medical School, Boston. Mass, In an
address delivered in this city today
before the third annual meeting OF
| the Association Of Life Insurance
Presidents "The annual loss is 35,.
1000 deaths and over $4,000 cases.
| This is national disgrace and is due
entirely to lack of education on the
subject, We probably know more
about typhoid and Its methods of
lspread and the means for its control
| than we do Of any other disease. Yet
fright here In our capital city there In
an excessive amount Of typhoid anil
this sad story finds repitition In all
our large cities. II the public were
taught to fear typhoid as II does
case of cholera there would soon he
an end OF 1t.
I'm advocating public health
militia In the cause OF preventative
medicine, ! do not mean marching
column Of men in uniforms armed
with microscopes and disinfectants.
The public health militia that have
In mind calls for the enrolment Of
lall good citizens. Preventive medi-
cine Is the watchword OF the hour
and enlistment In the cause can come
only through education.
when the people understand that
typhoid fever IL as nrsyentahle as
are railroad accidents we shall have
Il casus belli and the courage needed
for victorious compaign. the gov.
|crnIgIent now protects Ills from clioi-
era, Ieprosy yellow fever and other
exotis plaques; why should II not also
guard lis against the dangers that are
present as well ais those that are but
remotely imminent? Present dangers
such as tuberculosis, pneumonia
typhoid fever and infantiie diarrheas.
are infections which reap the highest
toll Of death among us and are foe
men worthy Of our nest efforts.
Have Much information.
The life Insurance companies OF
the United States have vast mine
Of original information that could be
utilized to promote public health, anil
they have also an army OF 100000
trained men to MAKE effective and
4, widespread Use of this information
according to Dir Edwin w. Dwight of
Boston Mass. who today delivered
an address before the life insurance
presidents.
For more than sixty years the life
insurance companies Of this country
have been storing up ammunition and
developing an organization which, II
properly used, would be almost suf.
| ficient In itself to turn the tide In
the battle for public health in favor
Of the forces of scientific effort" he
said
After stating that the 10 com
/ panies doing business N the United
! Dttslts VIM hlG represented lH the
Association of Life Insurance Medi.
cal Directors have 10000 medical ex.
), aminers and 10000 agents situated in
every nook and corner OF the country.
DIR, Dwight continued:
THE only line Of medical en-
deavor with which am familiar,
where errors may be correctly
checked up. where mistakes Of dag.
nosis are proved Without the assist
iance Of the rarely permitted autopsy
where treatment in the future may be
definitely based upon the results OF
the past. is that found in the medt
cal department of life insurance coon.
panies For over a year committee
of the Medical Directors Association