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Publish Date: 2012/10/10
Volume: 308, Issue: 14, Pages: 1412-1412
Abstract
One of the most interesting and important papers presented before the Fourth National Conservation Congress which met last week in Indianapolis was written not by a physician or a sanitarian but by a business man Mr E E Rittenhouse of the Equitable Life Assurance Company An abstract of his address appears in Society Proceedings in this issue Mr Rittenhouse in the opening paragraphs of this address recognized the crucial point in the present situation He said “It takes money to carry on a great educational movement and it takes money to conduct a public health service The war between preventable disease and death is therefore a struggle between the dollar and the deathrate” These words should be placed before every citizen for his instruction and as a warning With our presentday knowledge of disease good health is a commodity which can be bought if our cities counties and states are willing to pay the price
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