p. 93 | What It Costs to Be Sick

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 11, 1886

What It Costs to Be Sick.

Sir James Paget says that, “on an average, each man between fifteen and sixty-five has lost 1.31 weeks of each year, and each woman 1.33, or, in England and Wales, a total loss of 20,000,000 weeks of labor, equivalent to the complete and enforced idleness the entire year of 40,000 working people.” In this country the annual drain from the loss of labor is $40,000,000. He is convinced that at least one-fourth of this disease and sickness can be prevented by the very simplest precautionary measures.—Sel.