Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1910 — ANNUAL LOSS IS ENORMOUS [ARTICLE]

ANNUAL LOSS IS ENORMOUS

Two Hundred Million Dollars a Year Might Be Added to Wealth of Country. > ■' Computing that there are. In the United States at least 300,000 Indigent consumptives who should be cared for in charitable or semi-charitable sanatoria and hospitals, the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis estimates that the annual cost to the country for the treatment of these persons would be 150,000,000 at the rate of $1,669 per day per patient. At the lowest possible estimate the country loses $200,000,000 a year from the Incapacity of these indigent victims of tuberculosis. This would mean a net saving of $150,000,000 a year to the United States if all victims of consumption who are too poor to afford proper treatment In expensive sanatoria were cared for at the expense of the municipality, county or state. And this annual gain does not Include the enormous saving that would accrue from the lessened infection due to the segregation of the dangerous consumptives in institutions.