CHAPTER XCIX 

 MONEY REWARD 



CONTAGIOUS and infectious diseases make costly 

 business for the world. 



For each of the thirty millions who annually die 

 must be reckoned the expenses of sickness, doctors' 

 bills, nurses' bills, other attendants' bills; what the 

 individual might have earned while sick, had he 

 been in good health; and funeral expenses. 



For each of the thirty millions who are annually 

 sick and recover must be reckoned expenses of his 

 sickness, added to what he might have earned had 

 he been well. 



The diseases run from one day to many years 

 twenty, thirty, or more. 



Three hundred dollars cost per individual of the 

 sixty million victims is certainly a very low esti- 

 mate. But at this rate the entire cost to the world 

 is eighteen thousand million dollars per year. 



Victory means that all the millions are not only 

 not lost to the world every year, but that this 

 whole amount of money by the year is transformed 

 into better living for the sixty millions better 

 housing, better clothing, better feeding, better edu- 

 cation. 



The higher good to the world, year by year, along 

 this line, is beyond estimate. 



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