MALARIA 



TABLE II 



Annual Losses from Malaria estimated to illustrate the 

 Economic Significance of this Disease to the State of 

 California. (After California State Board of Health.) 



Death of 1 12 citizens at $1700, average economic value 



Six thousand acute cases of malaria at average of $20 

 per year for drugs, etc. 



Six thousand citizens' earning power reduced 25 per 

 cent by malaria, estimated average income $800 



Loss of life, wages, illness from other diseases given 

 opportunity through lowered resistance brought 

 about by malaria, estimating 50 deaths at #1700, 

 and 1000 persons ill at $100 each 



Loss through sacrifice sales of farms and moving ex- 

 penses of families leaving malarial districts, estimat- 

 ing 250 families at #500 



Loss through depreciation in land values, estimating 

 $1 per acre only on 1,000,000 acres under irrigation 

 in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys . 



$190,400 



120,000 



1,200,000 



185,000 



125,000 



1,000,000 

 $2,820,400 



Expensive to Community. — The following itemized 

 expense account (Table III) applies to the town of 



in the northern Sacramento Valley. In this 



town deaths due to malaria have been increasing, while 

 the population in the same time has not increased ma- 

 terially ; in 1909 there was one death, in 1910 there 

 were three deaths, and in 191 1 there were five, all 

 reported due directly to malaria. The itemized ac- 

 count is based on a careful investigation of data fur- 

 nished by reputable druggists, physicians, and city 

 officials, and is figured in a conservative manner. 



