New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1921-05-05
DIR. irwin AGAIN
HEADS 7. B. SOCIETY
Reports Presented at Annual
Meeting Last Night


Booths block last evening. and the
following officers were elected:
President, DIR. j. s. irwin: vice
president, Mr.. f. G.. Goodwin; secre-
tnry. Mrs. J. II. Robinson; treasurer.
Mr.. ~. q. Curtis: Board OF managers,
A. Buol, DIR. T.. Eben Rceks, II. T..
King, G.. ID. Parsons, l.. w. Young.
Mrs s. r. Goss. Miss Marion Sheldon.
Miss Flora Humphrey. Mrs. K. IL.
Cooper Mrs. F. A. Searlcs. Mrs. II. c.
NJ. Thomson. Mrs. @. W. Traut, and
Mrs. G. w. Epson.
The presidents report was as fol-
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Last year thia city had ST deaths
from tuberculosis. IL has been ac-
..cepted as q standard In health depart
Dncnts that the number of ciinicaily
active cases on tuberculosis Is ten
times the death rate in n community.
On this bases VIC should then expect
bt0 cases OF clinical tubcrcosis in New
Britain for this past year. OF these.
1te have been reported to the tuber-
cuiosis department OF the doctors,
which represent mostly advanced
cases. The cases reported have cost
tho city so.e4e.o0. which cost does not
represent anything but the final care
OF these cases and overhead cost to
the Office of the health board. The
difference i'm the number OF which We
have no record would not individual
ly Cost families as much as these
moribund cases. and yet figuring on
such ones of these as we know about
unofficially and the known course of
the disease, we may expect about the
same number to no reported and the
same number OF deaths next year In
other words. going hack TO the finan-
ciai standard of the situation. we
must expect that 26S cases will be re-
ported I'm future years.
These cases average all the way
up from cases of very slight disa bility
to the condition that we find in the
Dyerage case which Is reported TO tho
4 tuberculosis department. In which
rcaso the average length of life is only
a few months. IL In therefore fair to
strike an average and state that 3es
cases of moderate clinical tuberculosis
whose disability means n total cost
20 the family In loss of earning power
doctor bills. extra expenses due to
partial invalidism and the accidents
which follow early matigue OF those
working OF an average OF $3.50 per
day. which We feel Is a very conserva-
tive estimate The total OF this esti-
fnate for year would be s20I.4s0.o0
which " quite conservative.
I'm all of these expenses we may
conAider ourselves as I'm no way
different from selected typical
manufacturing city OF the Now Eng
land state, which was selected by the
United States Public Health service
and tho big Insurance companies aA
typical manufacturing city. large
enough TO be typical but
small enough to handle. and
where II was found last year
that one per cent OF population OF
$4,000 had active tuberculosis in
some form or other. We arc entitled
TO estimate that such n survey In New
Britain would give fairly equivalent
results. And on that basis. the total
plumber suffering actual physical de-
'bression from tuberculin from some
small or large lesion will be I'm the
city or New Britain $500 approx
matoly. Subtracting from this our
previous total OF 40. VIC have $40
cases OF mild and early tuberculosis
of various types. II In only fair to
estimate that the average cost OF this
depression i'm doctors bills purchase
or medicinea both prescribed and
patent. loss of earning power due to
weakness. and numerous accidents
due to early fatigue from the presence
OF the tuberculo-toxin would be not
less than s5o0per day each. This
would be a total for the year OF
sf.0ot, 9ss.oo. provided that all OF
these early cases were all young
people OF working age.
However. some or these will be
OF school ago and few younger. In
this case we may either subtract IL
we neglect the loss of education for
these children in terms of future
earning power: or we might add a
considerable amount to this loss IL
we accept the estimate of the United
states Bureau OF Education an to
loss OF earning power OF children due
p losses of education at the school
Ise.
Let uE consider now the deaths
and tho cases on the city's records.
There were 81 deaths Of tubcrcu-
loHis In tho city last year. The aver
age value OF human life. according TO
the state compensation bureau and
other institutional estimates is 5000.
Our 81 deaths at that rate would be
s255.00o. funeral expenses. taking an
average OF 800 per funeral would
be $500.
we have 101 cases OF advanced
whose doctor bills, ex-
ira expenses for food. nursing care
per day average at least So per day.
This would give us a total Of sT3,730.
THE cost OF tuberculosis to the city
Is as follows:
Running expenses and relief. So
o4s: cost OF estimate on clinical early
cases. s20f,4so; cost OF estimate on
basis. sl,o01.925: cost