Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1912 — CONSTANT DRAIN ON NATION [ARTICLE]

CONSTANT DRAIN ON NATION

Cost of Tuberculosis and Other Preventable Diseases Has Been Put Into Figures. ’While state commissions and other bodies are trying to find a method for reducing the cost of life insurance. Prof. James W. Glove- of the University of Michigan demonstrates that every policyholder of a SIO,OOO ordinary whole life policy amid save about S2O a year on his premiums if tuberculosis and typhoid fever wee eliminated. Tuberculosis alone causes a loss to such a policy holder of from $16.70 at twenty to $17.50 at the age of sixty. At age of twenty, with the present high death rate from tuberculosis, this one disease {done shortens the complete expectation of life by two years and 158 days. While the death rate from tuberculosis seems to be declining, the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis says that the combined effort of every map, woman and child 1 is necessary to bring about a radical reduction in life insurance rates such as Professor Glover has indicated.