Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-11-15

gether with extracts from a very full
and comprehensive report covering
upwards of 40 closely typewriter
pages. 1t contains much valuable
general information upon this i'm
portant subject and should be read by
all our subscribers. The commission,
of which w. M. Morgan of this city,
is member, has devoted much time
to a thorough investigation of the
subject under consideration and Sc
cured gerat amount of valuable in
formation and useful data pertaining
to the question. Read it without fail.
The. Commission on Health and
Old Age Insurance was created by
House Bill No. 461 for the purpose of
making IAN inquiry into the subject
of sickness and the cause thereof; the
loss to the individual and public
thereby, and the adequacy of the pre-
sent methods of treatment and care
of such sickness and of meeting the
losses caused by such sickness by
existing insurance companies or asso-
Citations or otherwise; and the in
fiuence of working and living condi-
tions upon the health of the employed
and unemployed persons and methods
for the prevention of such sickness
and other related subjects. u"
at shall be the duty of such Com
mission to make an inquiry into the
subject of old age in its relation to
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and of the adequacy Of existing meth
DDS of caring for aged workers"
Pursuant to the Act, Governor Jas.
NJ. Cox appointed the members of the
Commission as follows: W. A. Julian,
Cincinnati; M. B. Hammond, COlum-
bus; A. r. Warner, M. D., Cleveland;
D. f. Garland, Dayton; o. B. Chap
man, Dayton; T. j. Donnelly, Column
bus; Dudley r. Kennedy, Youngstown
The Commission recognized early
in its existence that the advice and
assistance of certain groups of peo-
pie should be specially invited and
asked, therefore, that the Ohio Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, the Ohio Manufact-
urers' Association, the State Medical
Society and the Ohio Conference of
Charities and Corrections appoint ad-
visory committees to aid the Com
mission. The following gentlemen
were appointed by the respective as
sociationS.
Social Agencies
w. S. Bixby, Chairman-Secretary,
Charity Organization Society, Akron.
G. W. Bookman, General Secretary,
Council of Social Agencies, Cincinnati
John Melpolder, Portsmouth We'll
fare Association, Portsmouth.
Ohio Manufacturers Association
Malcolm Jennings, Secretary Ohio
Manufacturers Association, Columbus
Fred M. Black, Newark.
w. H. Stackhouse, Manager French
& Hecht, Springfield.
State Medical Association
DR.. w. H. Snyder, Former Presi-
dent of State Medical Association,
Toledo.
DR.. O. P. Geier, Chairman, Section
on Public Health of American Medical
Association, Cincinnati.
DR.. G. E. Robbins, Former Presl-
dent of Ohio Society for Prevention
Of tuberculosis, Chillicothe.
Ohio State Federation of Labor
w. M. Morgan, 9th Vice President,
Ohio State Federation of Labor,
Newark.
G. w. Savage, District Secretary,
United Mine Workers, Columbus.
Arnold Bill, Secretary Carpenters
Union of Ohio, West Cleveland.
The Commission recognized at once
that the work which it was called
upon to do was of very great i'm
portance, comprehending three sub
jects which intimately touch the lives
of all our people, namely, sickness
prevention, health insurance and old
age insurance. They believe that es-
sentially every proposal made by the
Commission should be judged by its
tendency to promote health and pre-
vent destitution and poverty. Health
insurance and old age insurance are
being put to that test.
Mortality Statistics
The mortality statistics of Ohio
show that there were in the year 1916,
1920 deaths, which was at the rate
of 14.4 per thousand. The total num-
ber of deaths in 1917 was 76,89I,
which was at rate of 14.8 per thou
sand. This rate compares favorably
with the rate for the country as
whole.
Communicable Diseases
The State laws require number of
diseases to be reported to the State
Department of Health. In comparison
with the figures for other states on
such diseases the State has rather an
unfavorable record, the number of
cases reported being in excess of that
for the other states in some of the
most serious and most easily prevent
able diseases such as typhoid and
smallpox.
1t is regrettable that the laws pro-
viding for the reporting of communi-
cable diseases are not strictly obeyed,
resulting in the under reporting of
such important diseases as tubercu-
losis, there being more deaths report
ed from tuberculosis than cases re-
ported by physicians. Even more
striking is the small number of cases
of veneral diseases reported in COM