Note 12 — THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OF TYPHOID THE FEVER'S ECONOMIC COST TO PITTSBURGH AND THE LONG FIGHT FOR PURE WATER

Prof. Irving Fisher, of Yale, in a paper read at the International Congress on Tuberculosis in Washington last October, held that "the money cost of tuberculosis, including capitalized earning power lost by death, exceeds $8,000 per death." The average "expectation of life" lost through death from typhoid fever is not greatly different from that of tuberculosis.