ECONOMY OF HEALTH

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 1 October 1927, Page 15

ECONOMY OF HEALTH

IN A NUMBER OF WAYS. “In so far as health brings with it economy of materials (for instance, leading to the power to thrive on less food), health brings with it economy of money. “Healthy directly economises money in a number of ways which can only be mentioned without any details being added. “(1) Saving of doctors’ bills. “(2) Savings of drugs, ‘salts,’ tonics, etc. “(3) Saving of illnesses, which may cost a great deal of ' money, and may decrease the earning capacity. “(4) Besides the saving of illnesses, there is the saving of what may be called unfitnesses. There are so many people who cannot be classed as actually ill, and yet are not doing their work well or quickly or enduringly, beecause they are lacking somehow in real health and vitality. “(5) Increase of earning capacity through greater endurance, through clearer thought, and in other ways as well. “(6) Health leads to happiness, and Happiness in turn leads to health, so that we have here the satisfactory spiral; the greater the happiness, and the greater the health the greater the earning capacity and the easier the economy and thrift. “(7) Of course, more precious than money is the power to help, and this power to help may and sometimes actually docs lead to more money; but, as'a rule, one associates helpfulness rather with the giving of money than with the earning of money!” —Eustace Miles, in the “Eustace Miles Quarterly.