Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1909 — Billion a Year Loss by Illness. [ARTICLE]

Billion a Year Loss by Illness.

Ithaca, Oct. 22. —The cost of sickness to the people of the United States is a $1,000*000,000 a year and of minor ailments which do not require a physician $250,000,000, according to Professor Jeremiah W. Jenks in an address before Cornell university students.