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...each for doctors, nurses, hospital care, medicines, quackeries. With an average of 4.64 persons per family, the individual outlay was $22.62. New York City, as a community, last year spent 150 millions caring for the sick -on doctors, nurses, hospitals, clinics, drugs, quackeries. That was a per capita cost of $25. The people also lost an estimated 75 millions by absence from work on account of illness. Some 2,400,000 visited the 675 municipal and private clinics...
Despatches from Atlantic City, where the American Laryngological Association held its annual meeting last week, quoted its retiring president, Charles W. Richardson of Washington, as declaring: "With Americans consuming sugar at the rate of 105 Ib. per capita annually, which amounts to better than a third of a teacup daily, many diseases of the throat and nose can be traced directly to that cause." Later, Dr. Richardson vigorously refused to explain any bad effect sugar might have on nose or throat...
Figures on hat sales show that many a thrifty U. S. citizen must wear old hats through new seasons, as U. S. hat consumption is only ½ a hat per capita per annum...
...attempt to go back to pre-War wages or to maintain inflation prices, but upon increasing consumption through a policy of "low costs and high wages." Production and Consumption. Since 1922 primary production has increased about 17%, manufacturing and transportation about 28%. Greatest increase has come in per capita production, which increased 35% between 1922 and 1925. Consumption, however, has had little difficulty in keeping pace with production...
Chicago, like other U. S. metropoles, has more than its per capita share of U. S. venereal disease. U. S. Public Health Surgeon Hugh S. Cumming stated last week that at the beginning of this year the U. S. had 176,502 cases of syphilis and 143,490 of gonorrhea reported. That averages one venereal case for every 400 men, women and children in the U. S. So Chicago, with some 3,000,000 population, should normally have 7,500 cases. It has considerably more...