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The Cost of Insanity

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 19, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 49.

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The Cost of Insanity

AN exhibit recently made in the city hall of Philadelphia showed the cost of maintaining the insane of the country to be each year greater than the annual expenditure for the building of the Panama Canal, by $284,350. It further estimated the economic loss to the country through mental disease at the annual sum of $164,022,250, an amount which exceeds the value of the entire export trade of America in 1910 by $13,350,226. A large proportion of the insanity is admittedly traceable, directly or indirectly, to the liquor traffic.