Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-10
PREVENT TYPHOID
 AND SAVE MONEY
 AS WELL AS LIFE
Typhoid the Most Expensive of All Diseases and Strikes
 the pocketbook <
HOW THE FIGURES LOOK

HOW THE FIGURES LOOK ,e The appeal of cost is the most powerful of appeals. It works where oftentimes an appeal to the heart or reason fails. The pocketbock is foa this reason sometimes feeeIious- ly called the most vital spot in a mans anatomy-when he is todcned there, he @inces. It may hate been this that caused a physician to fig ure out the cost of typhoid fever as compared with the cost of other diseases. Tt lies within the power of tho person oftentimes to war. off an attack of typhoid and 1t is always possible for a city to keep out the dread typhus.
 If among all the fills that flesh IS heir TO-" typhoid cones lLe high est and it can be shown that typhoid is a luxury, man will go 10 Ihe nar- gain counter of diseases, figurative- ly speaking. by taking precautions aeains tyI5hoid. Dr. Williams, the city health physician. took the stano recently in an interview that ty- phoid was a disease of uncleanliness. That appeal touches the pride. He yives his official approval to the claim that typhoid is the most cost ry of all disease Following is ~ the argument:
 "As an economic proposition, the health of community should he guarded carefully.
 .An money spent upon sickness Is taken away from othcz channels of business and often results m making dependents of families that wouh be self-support!ng. if free from disease In such cases. the eaunffy- ceases to become a i'Ioaucei in the community. but becomes a dram upon the charity of the city, to~n or county.
 The most ordinary diseases are expensive and all this money $ lost ID the business interests O. the com munity. Of course the doctors spend their money in the communities. but there is always enough sickness at best. so that 1t Is well to take every precaution to prevent more
 
 cheapest thing one can haze 1nd that is generally confined to chil- dren and does not become such a danger to the economic sysISm of A community as diseases to Which adults and wage earners are suseep rfble Whooping cough will cost on an average of SIS for each patlehC This ts the figure which it costs the people in ordinary circumstahc, ss. In rich families, the expense is much greater, but they can aIIoru it
 Sickness Pinchss Poor.
 Tt is the poor who are plnched by sickness; the very poor feel It more severely, but, take the aFease working man. whose average pay may be 8 a day, and take ont Sia from his living expenses TOT the TIT ness of a child, and you have quite sum that is lost to the family. Here are some figures on whoop- ing cough case. The physician VII make, perhaps, three calls at Sz.oU each This Is S7.5O. The child Will then make on an average of four calls at the office, at dollar . call. Medicine fog the child VIII cost about S. There you have Sl6.oo. Tf the doctor charges only S2 a call. the case costs S16. In many instances the calls are more, espe ciaIlv those of the child to the or flee. and the medicine IS more.
 .Tu an ordinary case Of measles the medical attendance is not so high. nor is the medicine so eA.en dive but the appetite of the paIlen' is sffected. and there are many deh racJas to buy. Then. there IS alWaSs he chance of a relapse, Whlch iilay ~ result in a big doctor. bill and mlgn' ,1so result fatally or Tn some perma nent injury.
 Typhoid Is Expensive.
 -C4 .he diseases common 10 DoLl .5,,Its ana children. typhoid is prop cbIv the most expensive. It IS aiso i.n1erous as five or ten die out oI .-%erg hundred. The duration Of the 3tsassa ia about two months-tha'
 rs+ient cannot return 10 Worh -+, Ices time. This, therefore, means toes in wages to begin with anc ,ha average wage will be ahout SS a day. or total loss or SloV- M many instances. 2 spell Of slcKhess oT sueb iong duration, loses per sop position. The cost, at a con so~vatfve estimate, will be about as follows: Two visits day by a phy zician for the first three weeks, a' s2 a visit, $s4: nurse. at S25 a week s75: drugs. about S3 week S'' extra ice and delicaeies, about s5 week. which Is low, sl5; board oi nurse at & a week. SIS: visit o' doctor once a day during fourtf week. at g. a visit, SIP; about si1 more calls before patient is well s12: wear and tear on linen. cos' of stsrilizfng and other small mat ters. about g. a week, for the firsl three weeks. s6. This makes totai cost of s27s for medical attendance and food, and. with the loss of sal ary. if the patient be a man. the total cost is about s40S.
 Cost of Diphtheris-
 T A case of diphtheria, the cost
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