Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-06-21
DISEASE IS BLAMED
FOR LIVING COST
LARGER FACTOR THAN TARIFF
AND ACTIONS OF MoNoPo.
LIES.
NEW THEORY ExPoUNDED
YTURERcULosIs EXPERT
Great Wastes Of Various Kinds, Led BY
Preventable Diseases, consumption
Foremost, Responsible For Increased
Cost Of Livins-Bovins Tubercuiosis
Communicable.

Denver, June 21.-"The large factors
| in the increase of the cost Of living
with the serious conquences it entails
on the American people, are not the
tariff nor the trusts nor the illegal ac-
tions of monopoly, altho they have a
tremendous influence on the increase
cost OF prices generally in the United
States. The chief cause of the increase
in the cost Of living is waste. The
| largest item is that Of waste from un-
| necessary disease and death, in which
tuberculosis is the principal factor"
Such was the declaration Of Edward
F. insolvency, chairman of the board
Of trustees Of the Boston Consumptives
Hospital. who today addressed the Ma
! ton Association for the study and pre-
vention Of tuberculosis. The speaker
| continues:
The four great wastes Of today,
more lamentable because they are UNI
| necessary. are preventable deaths, pre-
| ventab!e sickness, preventable condi-
i ficiency, and preventable ignorance, all
Of which are playing their part in
| cruel devastating destruction almost
| incredible to human minds, and which
together operate to bring about an adj
vance In commodity prices by affecting
the supply Of the necessaries of life
| restricting supply by taking persons
out OF productive enterprise. thus maxi
ing production more expensive. At the
same time, while restricting produce
ton by the amount Of persons it has
! taken out of industry, this extends de-
mand by increasing the consumption OF
goods AS a rule the victims Of tu-
berculosis are all confined to the pros
ductive period of life.
Figures Are Startling.
1.-THE total annual tariff revenue Of
! the Payne-Adrich bill to the United
States government is 20 per cent, less
than the actual annual loss of wages
and cost OF sickness and deaths from
tuberculosis alone in the United
States.
"A greater number Of persons are
taken out of productive industry by
tuberculosis every year in the United
States than there are wage carriers IN
the state of Massachusetts.
1.-The researches Of the Sage Foun-
dalton and similar bodies have dernon-
strated that the average family in
come in the United States in less than
$500. On this basis the entire family
income OF 562.500 householders would
be required to pay the nations yearly
tuberculosis bill alone
These figures give some idea Of the
cost Of tuberculosis alone. When We
come to the total cost to the nation, OF
all preventabie disease, we find the
figures even more startling.
Bovine Tuberculosis Transmissabtc.
THE vexed question as to whether
or not bovine tuberculosis can be trans,
nitted to mankind has been definitely
settled in the affirmative by the work
Of the English royal commission. the
German imperial commission, and
numerous private workers in vartour'
parts of the world" said DR.. NJ. P.
Ravenel, director Of the Wisconsin,
state hygienic laboratory in an address
today before the National Association
for the Study and Prevention of Tuber-
culosis Special emphasis must be
laid on the work al the research labor
atories of the New York City depart
ment Of health" continued DR.. RaveneL
'This work shows that OF all children
under five years OF age, 70 per cent OF
those who died Of tuberculosis were in
fected by the bovine germ; OF children.
between and 16 years OF age, 70 per
cent. and of adults, o per cent. Tho
question has narrowed to the relative.
importance OF bovine disease COM
pared with the human as source OF:
infection. It will be many years before
this can be determined.
"Uhen upwards OF 800 children die !,
from bovine infection in one city New
York; each year, certainly no good,
argument can be brought against taxa
ing every precaution against the ina
lection of children by the bovine GERM
All nations in the world are giving.
much attention to the control OF bovine
tuberculosis. An international commis<s
sion appointed by the American VeteriaA
nary Association made Its report last,
September after a year spent In cares
full study of the question. This fepoSe1
should be widely read and it's provisions
followed as nearly as possible, A stricy
quarantine on the importation o6 MS-s
eased cattle could be maintained In saIA
countries. }
I'm the Uuited states the varsou1
states should adopt similar laws end}
attempt to unity their practices. Fur
cities, the tuberculin testing OF all cat;
tie furnishing milk Is recommended and
the banishment of reacting COWS from
herds supplying such milk. In the abb
sence of such laws pasteurization under!
careful supervision must be resorted ia. !
Properly done, this .insures' safety. D.sei
in practice, it Is a difficult matter tot
carry out on - large scale"
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