What Typhoid Fever Costs

A correspondent of the Washington Post gives the following appalling typhoid statistics: Every year in the United States 400,000 people are sick with typhoid fever. Forty thousand of them die. They are sick 28 days on an i average out of every 865 days. Thus we have 11,200,000 days of sickness from this disease. Every case of this sickness means one month, generally two mouths, of idleness. If the wages of the patiënt are only 50 cents a day, there is a losa of $15 a month. Generally this sickness means a loss of wages in two months' time of $60 or $80. The average loss of wages for six weeks would be $50. Add to this the doctor's bill, which is anywhere from $60 to $100 - we will say j $60. If the patiënt lives in the city and has & trained nurse for only three weeks, there is another $45. Ten dollars for the prepared food, ice, milk, etc, brings this moderate bill up to $165. Multiply this by the number of people sick, and we can see every year in the United States $66,000,000 lost to pa; tients by the inroads of this one disease.