Community civics and rural life . to the family permanent loss of income, and to the nation com-plete loss of the product of the wage earners work. The nationspends large sums of money every year in providing fordependent families and individuals. 1 Public Health Reports, U. S. Public Health Service, vol. 34, No. 13, p. 633(March 28, 1919). 2 Public Health Reports, TJ. S. Public Health Service, vol. 34, No. 16, pp. 777-782(April 18, 1919). 309 3io COMMUNITY CIVICS If each of the 38 million wage earners in the United States in 1910 lost6 days from work in a year, how many days work would the na
Community civics and rural life . to the family permanent loss of income, and to the nation com-plete loss of the product of the wage earners work. The nationspends large sums of money every year in providing fordependent families and individuals. 1 Public Health Reports, U. S. Public Health Service, vol. 34, No. 13, p. 633(March 28, 1919). 2 Public Health Reports, TJ. S. Public Health Service, vol. 34, No. 16, pp. 777-782(April 18, 1919). 309 3io COMMUNITY CIVICS If each of the 38 million wage earners in the United States in 1910 lost6 days from work in a year, how many days work would the nation lose ?How many years of work would this amount to ? At $ a day (is this a high wage?) how much would be lost in wagesin a year? Get information regarding the cost of a long case of sickness, such astyphoid fever, in some family of your acquaintance (perhaps your own),including doctors bills, medicines, time lost from work, etc. What would such expense mean to a family living on as low wages asthose mentioned on page 167?. Setting Up Exercises in the Army Moreover, the nation loses a great deal (how much cannotbe calculated) from the physical unfitness of many who keepEducation on wor^ing, but who are not fully efficient becauseand physical of bodily defects or ailments. We see the resultsof this even in school. Pupils who lag behind theirmates in their studies are often suffering from physical defectsof which their teachers, and even they themselves, may be un-aware. It may be that they are ill-nourished, or that they havedefective vision, or hearing, or teeth, or that they sleep in THE COMMUNITYS HEALTH 3 poorly ventilated rooms. The community does not get itsmoneys worth from its schools if its children are not in physicalcondition to profit by them. In a similar manner earning andproductive power are reduced. It has usually been assumed that the people in rural districtsare more healthy than those who live in cities; but it has beenfound that there is as much physic
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