Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1909 — FOR YOUR HEALTH’S SAKE [ARTICLE]

FOR YOUR HEALTH’S SAKE

• Prevention. * • Typhoid is classed among the * • preventable diseases. And yet * • not long ago in a certain eastern * • city there were 194 cases of this * • terrible disease 'in two wards * • alone, and 5,637 cases during the * • year for the entire city. The es- * • timated money cost of the 194 * • cases in the two wards, including * • loss of wages, medical, hospital, * • and funeral expenses, amounted * • to nearly $25,000. * • The'moral is, it pays to spend * • money for prevention. * •******» » • » » » ♦ *