. The Canadian nurse . phoid fever prevented,representing in vital capital some $22,500,000 annually, or the intereston an investment of $375,000,000. In the United States an urban popu-lation of 30,000,000 persons is still supplied with unfiltered water; thecost of supplying filtered water to these, including fixed charges andoperation of plants, would not be more than $12,000,000 per year, orabout one-half the present annual loss in vital capital due to non-filtration. Twenty million people are now being supplied with filtered water at acost not exceeding $8,000,000 or 40 cents per capita pe
. The Canadian nurse . phoid fever prevented,representing in vital capital some $22,500,000 annually, or the intereston an investment of $375,000,000. In the United States an urban popu-lation of 30,000,000 persons is still supplied with unfiltered water; thecost of supplying filtered water to these, including fixed charges andoperation of plants, would not be more than $12,000,000 per year, orabout one-half the present annual loss in vital capital due to non-filtration. Twenty million people are now being supplied with filtered water at acost not exceeding $8,000,000 or 40 cents per capita per year, and theresults of water purification always show a big balance on the right sideof the ledger. In the United States, 300,000 persons suffer annually from typhoidfever and 20,000 die of it. Valuing the human lives lost at $3,600 each,and allowing for lost wages and medical attention $200 for each caseof the disease, the annual toll from typhoid alone amounts to $130,000,000.—Conservation. THE CANADIAN NURSE 85. In the Annual Report of the American Association for Study andPrevention of Infant MortaHty for 1915, the President, Homer Folks,, of New York, in his opening address, Are Babies Worth Saving?says some very splendid and illuminating things. He divides his subject into three parts: (1) What are the under-lying purposes of infant welfare work? (2) How large an opportunityhave we before us? (3) What are the agencies on which we must chieflyrely ? (1) The outstanding fact as to the underlying purpose of the infantmortality movement is that the work is preventive rather than infant welfare movement has changed from dealing with the fewfor curative purposes to deal with the multitudes for preventive purposes. It is a common-place that birth registration is a first essential to theinfant welfare movement. We have to know where all the babies arebefore the plans can be carried out; another common-place is that thework of the Association is 80 or 90 per
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