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There is an economic theory, gaining ground, that the material advance of a people is measured by its consumption of paper. Of all kinds of paper Russia consumes about one pound per capita per annum, while the U. S. this year will use over 45 pounds per capita of newsprint paper alone...
Damage. It was confirmed that the damage to property during the quake amounted to about one billion dollars ?$13 for every Japanese. This increases Japan's per capita national debt from...
...earthquake tax, $13 per capita in Japan...
Fifty-one and six-tenths cents per capita is what the average American city of 100,000 population or more spends on health-that is, for strictly defined health services, and not including hospitals, morgues, sewerage and sewage disposal, garbage and refuse disposal.* It lavishes $6.11 on education, $1.88 on highways, $1.56 on fire prevention, $1.28 on police protection. And this expenditure for health purposes, parsimonious though it looks, increased 95% on the average between 1910 and 1920, according to a 10-year analysis of the health department budgets of 83 cities (including the 68 with a population of over...
...survey of health department expenditures showed that every city in the list increased its budget between 1910 and 1920. In 24 cities the increase was over 100%. In Milwaukee it was 343%. The greatest average increase was made by cities of 250,000 to 500,000. The per capita expenditures for 1920 ranged from 104.9 cents (Bridgeport) to 11.9 (Scranton). One-half of the cities spent less than 43.9 cents per capita. Twenty-seven cities spent more than the average. They were: Bridgeport 104.9 Memphis...