Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-08
FiouREs COMPLIED ON PRE-.
4 vENTAsLE DIsEAsEs AND
DEATHS STARTLING.
CONSERVATION OF HEALTH
MoMENTcus MOVEMENT
Less Can BE Greatly Modified, ~ Tu-
bsrculosis Campaign Proves = Ty'
pho;d Fever Also Held to 30 Pre'
vsntabis Diseass-Fisurss in Support
Of Health Bureau Bill.
rspecial Correspondence

Especial COrreSpOuucASc'J
washington, Aug. s.-That the ma
ton is allowing 100000 lives need
,es.lv to be lost annually and 100000
lives to be constantly incapacitateo 10
the startling statement made In q SEN
ate document on the subject OF con-
seryation of human life which senator
Robert l.. owen, of Oklahoma. Is caue-
ing to be distributed. The document ~
in support of the proposed Legislation
for a United States public health eer'-
ice which Senator owen has Oeeh
fighting for. The material tor II was
prepared by Irving Fisher, OF 4ale. anu
Miss Emily F. Robbins. OF New iorn ~
both representing the committee OF AVo
on national health.
Loss in Precsntabls Diseases.
According to the statistics ana STATE
mont r,ven in this document, the an.
nual financial loss which the loss anu
inca nacitation Of lives represents ~
"a oof 900 600. Acute diseases are neio
"a he responsible for large part OF the
,oss Chronic diseases are respohs'pie !
Tor the greatest part of the waste OF
Iifa and are believed to be increasing
lin their ravages. The document sa ~
mat minor ailments. believed 10 w
atna.tenths preventable. are now cost
inr the nation many dollars thru m
- n1 % c,ta+ion Of lives and thru leading
- serious illness. Industrial accioehts'
so largely preventable, are aiso eAa
ing heavy toll OF lie ana ii'io
nually.
AnO
health and the national economic ioe'
that results can be modifieo ny no
tional action is asserted. Here ae ~
be found the reasons advanced ioI
great national bureau or department. "
health, The work Of this bureau OF oe.
partment would be varied. II wouic
include direct work IN proHotihe
health on the part Of the feoeral gov
eminent, such as administering the
food and drug act; the work OF aioihs
the healing and educational asenc'es'
both city and state; the work OF oo-
tanning information concerning the
cause and prevention Of all KINDS Oh
diseases; and the work Of education OF
disseminating scientifically proved IN
formation on ali health subjects.
Greatest Of Conservation. !,
Il ia maintained that the movement
for the conservation OF heaitn Is the
most momentous Of the CONSERVATION
movements in this country and that' o.
all Of the national wastes which are ~
he condemned this waste OF healtn aho
life is the gravest.
MANY startling statements are SCI
forth in the document apropos OF the
national lack Of care for life and health
For instance, it is recalled that Dr.
Charles wardell stiles. Of the United
states public health and marine hos
n,ta, service declares that the United
states IL seven times dirtier than Ger
MANY and ten times as unclean a
Switzerland He declares that lack Of
interest in preventive measures againS'
disease is slaughtering the human race
He takes the position that the rea
trouble is not so much race suicide Al
race slaughter and that 1t Is rather
that too many children are allowed t
die than that not enough children arr
| born.
Tuberculosis and Typhoid.
II hs estimated that tuberculosii
alone. a .preventable disease, now cost
the nation 81, 000, 000,000 annually. ~
phoid fever is estimated by DR.. Georg'
NJ. Kober, dean of the medical depart
ment of Georgetown University, to cos
over 100000, 900 annually.
In connection with acute diseases
/ that statement Is made:
"The loss from tuberculosis has beel
reduced to half Of what 1t was thirt!
wears ago. Nevertheless Of the 10000,
900 people now living in the Unite'
states at least 100000 will be los
thru this disease because adequate eft
! fort IL not made to prevent 1t. Be
Isides the economic waste thru death
from any disease, the waste thru sick
ne.. from the same disease Is ais
1 colossal"
+, Great as are the reductions In tn
rates OF infant mortality by improve
milk and water supplies and by educa
tional campaigns, the present rate
i:stiii enormous.
Unnecessary Baby Funerals.
.1f some witch or wizard could con
lure .up the unnecessary babies tuner
m annually occurring In this countr!
iiE would be found that the little hearse
would reach from New York nearly t
Chicago. II we should add the mourn
inx mothers and friends, 1t would max
cortese extending across the cont
neiit."
while the death rates from acut
i diseases have been greatly reduced, tn
death rates from chroslic diseases hav
Ebeen steadily increasing. Cancer IL on
Iof the chronic diseases apparently o
1.-THE increase.
i That the annual death roll and tn
8 900, 900 constant sick beds could
q reduced from one fourth to one-half b
proper measures is asserted. In oth<
words, every day there might be save
lbs many lives as persisted on the Titan
tic. with the consequent enormous ecc
nomic saving.
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