The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1922-12-08
[. B. DEATH RATE
is cut in HALF

The dea !. rato % tuberculosis in
the Unite "a r. registration area
has l}ee~ IN - s.er 200 per 100
900 ponesi.t u1 in 1900 to about 100
PEI. loo i 1921. Since 1904, the
year i, ! ! n educational campaign
to T ,?,,tF., Z | stamp out tuberculos-
is was a'.,r'o BY the National Tuber-
cui6sis Aa~o iation the death rate has
ben attn half. Had the 1904 death
rae> % %.siicd we should have lost
80 G<T 2o~e persons in 1921. In Mon
= tan 1915, the year before the Mon
t1!s-rs S@berculosis Association was or
8, the death rate was 1888 per
HI. s thousand while last year it
W. y 59.2 per hundred thousand.
Hos' death rate of 1915 prevailed
IL ana last year there would
80 have been 784 deaths. We
.g- J lives from tuberculosis, but
b. death rate Of 1915 prevailed
ID have lost 444 more persons.
oerculosis Kills Producers
most productive and necessary
those between the ages of IS |
= years, suffer most severely i
5G lberculosis. About sixty per
ccE all tuberculosis deaths occur /!
i = group. About Z per cent Of |
& Chs from tuberculosis are Of |
Js-i IS. One death in ev-
e. used by tuberculosis
E >1e to Tuberculosis |
~ ~rculosis. ,Associa-
tS2n h" life tables with tu-
b sic d and with the
@957e tud2d. On the basis
OF bee u; it is etiaated that
Il tlkcr minated as a
c2uGo of Z years would
be 2d''04 each individual
in j his, talizing each in
dlvldE-li life opulation of 1O0,-
GEO 5o11 II ast oar year the net say
ing wCul>, least Is billion dollars.
In Moat""a In the past six years tu-
be1o;}Qsi has killed 2818, according
to III lires OF the State Board of
Health A life according to the In
da rial Accident Board of Montana
5 nth $4,000. Reducing these lives
icse IN the state by tuberculosis the
1co--2 -lic loss to the state is S11 ,272,- !
o.
" Rate Highest Among Teachers
i,ae death rate from tuberculosis
IS r. attest among stone-cutters and
ocr miners, but this is due to the
lndns5ry which they follow, and is a
Co." of silocosis-the little particles ,
and destroying the lung It's
sue. Aside from this class the death
~ e is greatest among teachers. When ,
60 considers this fact it shows the
at need of education along health
SC in schools and in colleges.
Prevalence of Tuberculosis
re are nine active cases of tu-
a'osis to every death. This means
j. n the United States there are l
than million threatening cases
tuberculosis needing care, and in {
ana over three thousand active I
IS with five thousand in suiescent I
timated Cost of Examination !;
>. per capita per annum will buy
Gnt' health machinery such as S
:, open-air schools, tuberculosis i
5 and sanitoriun1s. This viii go t
}Ward eliminating tuberculosis. v
: {, : work is extended over a suffi- II
D. period Of time. Taking the Pop "a
IL Of the United States as a q
-, and extending: the payment ov- c
wears, this would mean an III
e1it Of anpro inatalv two bill 7
@oitars. In orher words, by ray Z
zat amount Of money, loss than
Il war, we should save fh3u;,
Of lives, and a steady drain Of
7 ? million active cases Of tai q
osf7. f tuberculosis could be =
-sly conquered, the actual saving =,
SIS ard cents, after deduotine Il
1Festment Of two billion could be \
Il at % billion dollars. We should F.
an AVERAGE of 27% wears of life
= cry American citizen. Thus ~
< " spent in anti tuberculosis work. h
investment on which the re- q,
are tenfold. -