The Monmouth inquirer., 1922-01-26
LIFE LENG / HENED
by FIVE YEARS
Remarkable Improvement In
Health Shown by Committee
on Waste in Industry.
2,4OO,OOO CONTINUALLY I'LL
Eye Conservation Taken Up by Man
ufacturers-Ravage Of Tubercu.
osIs Shown on Decrease
Survey Of Industries.

Washington.-Th duration of life
in America has been increased by FIVE
years since 1909, according to the
hndligs Of the committee on elimina.
tion of waste IN Industry of the Amer
lean Engineering council appointed by
Herbert Hoover. AIorbidity surveys,
II Is stated, shown an economic gain
to the nation of many millions through
lessened disability and sickness.
Army figures cited bear out esti-
mates Of industrial loss resulting from
accidents to the eye and defective vis-
ion. OF 2,232 men discharged for
physical reasons by the military au-
thorties in Brooklyn and Manhattan,
462 were rejected because of defee-
tive eyes. Eye conservation has now
become a matter of organized nation
al concern. The Eye-sight Conserya-
tion Council of America and many OF
the country's biggest industrial en-
terprises are working to cut down the
eRormous annual loss from this form
Of waste
The report estimates that 2,4O0,000
people are continually Ill. Turhercu-
losis is still the worst epidemic dis
ease though its ravages are decreas-
ing.
There is no reason, it is declared, to
believe that the race Is physically adj
vancing. But that national vitality is
increasing rs the general conclusion
reached by the investigators.
Value of Workers Health,
The section of the waste report deal
ing with the health Of Industrial work.
ers was prepared by DR.. Eugene Ly-
man Fisk and DR.. g. 7. Sharp of New
York By health supervision and pc
riodic physical examination, it is as
serted net margin of economic gain
Of 81 $1,52O,O00O00 can he accomplished,
ip addition to excess dividends in
health, happiness, satisfaction in llv.
ing, prevention OF pain, prevention OF
sorrow, prevention of discontentment
and Industrial unrest"
Improvement in the general condi-
tion Of the population since Roosevelt
| was president is recorded In the re-
port, which represents n survey Of five
basic Industries, which We're DIS
cussed at great national forum in
connection with the annual five-day
meeting of the American Society Of
Municipal Engineers. which met In
New York city.
''In the report on national vitality
prepared by Prof Irving Fisher for
the national conservation commission
appointed by President Roosevelt in
1909" says the waste committees re-
port, ut was estimated that there
were about 3,OO0,0O0 persons serious
ly i'll at all times in the United States
and that AZ per cent of this Illness was
preventable, with resultant extern
sion Of life of over fifteen years.
Even in the short period of time
since that report was issued meas
ure of this reduction has been noted.
The estimate of 13 days annual loss
from illness must now be reduced to
approximately seven. The duration
of life has actually been extended
probably period of five years"
"a survey of the sickness prevalent
among approximately 100000 work
ers during 1913-15 revealed an aver
age loss to more than 100000 Arser-
lean wage earners of about nine days
per year A fab In the general death
rate from 1907 to 1917 of 2.3 per thou
sand indicated a saving of 240.000
lives in 1917
Death Rate iu Industry,
Dealing with health conditions In
industry, the report estimates total
loss among 42OO0,000 workers between
the ages Of fifteen to sixty-five OF 428,-
600 lives in 1920, and probable loss
this year of 100000 The death rate
in industry is given as l1.46 per l.
600, while in preferred occupations,
such as teachers and graduates Of
women's colleges, 1t is 3.24, as shown
by an Investigation of mortality among
the graduates of Smith. Wellesley and
Vassar.