128 MAN, THE ANIMAL 



loss of more than one and a half billions of dollars 

 annually from sickness in the United States, one 

 half of which is preventable. 



It is a matter of history that more men died 

 from sickness in the Spanish-American war than 

 from bullets. In the recent great war, it has 

 been repeatedly stated that both the Allies and 

 Central Powers have had more men unfit for serv- 

 ice from sickness than from injuries, and in- 

 fluenza killed more civilians that both wounds 

 and sickness in the armies. 



The quarantine laws passed not only by our 

 nation but by the nations of the world indicate 

 that there is a very general belief that man may 

 be sick and that he may give this same sickness to 

 other men. The further carrying out of the 

 quarantine regulations so that they apply to states, 

 countries, cities and finally to a single house where 

 a person is sick, is but the logical application of 

 our national quarantine regulations. These pre- 

 ventive measures are so important that they have 

 been put under the police power and not under 

 civil administration where they might be modified 

 by political manipulation. The laws which the 

 free people of the United States have allowed to 

 be Imposed upon them In regard to the preventable 

 sicknesses are among the most drastic to be found 

 anywhere in the world. This would seem to in- 



