The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-03
MAN USELESSAT
70, DOCTOR
SAYS

InFSS score years anu ten, man
allotted span. ends his value to the
community as an asset and places
him in the liability class.
This statement was made yester-
day at the final session of the
American Congress of Physicians
and Surgeons, in the Mayflower
Hotel, by DR.. Haven Emerson, of
Columbia University. His topic
was "The Economic Aspects of
Heart Disease
Basing his figures on the prob
able earnings of sufferers from
the many forms of heart disease,
who as a result of their illness
must retire or work but part time,
DIR. Emerson places the loss at
S21. 969, 900 900. The actual cost for
one years he places at $1,502. 00O,.
600. This figure is exclusive of
hospital care, nursing visits and
mate will run S104 200, 900 for this
year.
Usefulness Ends
Explaining his statement regard.
ing the end Of mans usefulness as
q wage Garner, DR.. Emerson ex-
hibited charts showing just how
much we are worth to the COM
Inunity provided we live out our
allotted span.
At 81 on an income of So 900 we
are worth $39, $50, on $4,000, $3O, 900.
At 40 he sets $45, 900 and SIS 900 re-
spectively as mans economic values
At 50 man is worth just SO. 900
to the community if he is earning
$1,000 and $4,000 if his income is
$500.
The man who at 20 is earning
$4,000, DR.. Emerson said, Is worth
Just Sc 900 and he who is plugging
along at half that figure is just
worth $3.50 in the economic scale.
After the 70-year mark has been
attained. man is on the red side
of the ledger. DIR. Emerson declared
and from that time on until he
slnuffles off his mortal coil is worth
nothing at all but on the contrary
In source of expense to someone.
The speaker did add that there are
. few exceptions.
Prevalent Among Poor
CONT into detail in regard to
heart trouble the second worse dis
ease to which man is subject, DIR.
Emerson declared that those per-
SONS ins the more humble walks OF
life are the greatest sufferers. This
not only applies to heart disea ses
but to pneumonia, tuberculosis and
cancer. he added.
DIR. Emerson said:
While We cannot measure the
value of a human life in terms of
dollars and cents we can arrive at
his value from an economic stand
point, by the salary he earns and
what he would lose due to total
or partial disability as the result of
disease"
DR.. Homer F. Swift. Of the Rock.
efeller Institute for Medical Re
search, of New York city. spoke on
THE Heart in Infection" He de-
clared that many of the diseases to
which we are prone may be traced
to reinfection following scarlet fever.
He pointed out that in cases of
carditis, angina and arthritis in many
instances it las been established that
bacterial bodies left in the system
following scarlet fever set up such
conditions.
DIR. Swift also said that VaIvuIar
heart disease is most frequent in
early life when the body contains the
greatest number of vessels.
Cancer Can BE Cured
Early diagnosis Of cancer. with
immediate surgical attention, sill, ir
the majority of cases. effect an abso.
lutte cure, DR.. Vilray p. Blair, yes
terday told the American Surgical
Association at a meeting in the Ma.
tionaI Museum
The after care he declared 10 be
important in order to detect POSSIBLE
recurrence of the disease in some
other part of the body. DIR. Urban
Macs, OF New Orleans, discu ssed be-
zoarg or tumors, >caused by taking
foreign matter into the stomach.
DIR. Ellsworth Eliot, of New York,
was elected president of the associa.
A4on.
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