Prevention of degenerative disease, then, as well as of the enormous numbers of preventable accidents and injuries, depends in large measure upon proper living conditions and proper personal habits.
It must be remarked that the increased tendency to premature birth, while in part it may be due to general tendencies of civilization, is also in part due to very definite andpreventable causes.
It is one of the great defects of our law that deaths due to preventable causes in any profit-making business are not criminal offences.
There are from one-quarter to three-quarters of a million of preventable deaths every years in this country.
The Executive Council knew that the deaths were preventable in only one way--by killing the Nipe.
Nor had he pointed out that ten thousand times as many people had died during the same period through preventable accidents.
They therefore rank, like leprosy, as amongst the most eminentlypreventable diseases.
When, however, we know that two-thirds of them are a late result of some of the preventable infectious diseases and fevers, we can realize that it is perfectly possible to prevent them, and that prevention is the best cure.
Fortunately, however, this is an accident that is as preventable as it is common.
I know of no disease that can be made so preventable as this.
Thousands of lives must have been sacrificed by this neglect, and innumerable cases of preventable disease not prevented.
The principles now affirmed in our statute book are such as, if carried into full effect, would soon reduce to quite an insignificant amount our present very large proportions of preventable disease.
The number of persons dying from preventable disease had been steadily increasing.
He wrote:-- "The costliness ofpreventable disease is enormous.
The doctor will tell you that they die mostly of what are called "preventable diseases" and that those diseases are mainly of the alimentary canal.
That we will now--this year--begin in good earnest to prevent all preventable diseases.
In other words, he knew that preventable sacrifice of life of defenceless people was going on, and that he could put a stop to it any time he saw fit.
Syphilis is a preventable disease, usually curable when handled in time, and its successful management will depend in large part upon the coöperation, not only of those who are victims of it, but of those who are not.
Then it is unfair to take away the living of the unemployed, the twelve millions on the verge of starvation, and the thousands slain annually by poverty and preventable disease.
The scientific investigation of old age shows that senility is nearly always precocious and that its disabilities and miseries are for the most part due topreventable causes.
Metchnikoff shows that in the vast majority of cases death is not “natural,” but comes from accidental and preventable causes.
We have entered upon a crusade against preventable disease and for the better physical development of all citizens and potential citizens.
The help toward the abolition of all preventable illness, the protection of child-life from all manner of preventable weakness, abnormality and suffering, seems to be the business of society in general, if anything can be so called.
The vital statistics of greatest consequence are not the number of deaths or the number of births, not even the number of deaths from preventable diseases, but rather the number of cases of sickness from transmissible diseases.
If the medical profession does not fit itself to serve general interests, then cities, counties, and states will take to themselves the cure as well as the prevention of communicable and other preventable sickness.
Where, on the other hand, boards of health regard every communicable disease as a menace to health rights, you will find that health officials take certain steps in a certain order to remove the soil in which preventable diseases grow.
Many diseases and much sickness are preventable that are not communicable.
Obviously the nineteen deaths reported give no conception of the suffering, the cost, the anxiety caused by this preventable disease.
Among remedies for preventable disease and preventable poverty, the following was urged at a national conference for the betterment of social conditions: "We have been too prudish.
Preventable sickness costs too much, causes too much wretchedness, and hampers too many modern educational and industrial activities to be neglected.
Headaches due to eye trouble, undernourishment due to mouth breathing, preventable indigestion, are insidious enemies that cannot escape the physical test.
Just as this nation could not exist half slave, half free, we of one mind now affirm that equal opportunity cannot exist where one death in ten is from a single preventable disease.
Every one can learn enough about the preventable causes of sickness and depleted vitality to insist upon the ounce of education and prevention that is better than a pound of cure.
It has been found from experience in hospitals that deaths from diphtheria are largelypreventable by early use of antitoxin.
A mere tyro in sanitary science would take warning and be on her guard against this and other disgusting and preventable sources of domestic infection.
Since we know that many diseases are preventable and we know the suffering and sorrow, as well as expense, that come from sickness and premature death, we should all eagerly unite in doing all that we can to stop these ravages.
Every Fourth of July a great many entirely preventabledeaths and minor accidents occur.
Another matter which should receive careful consideration is the large number of preventable accidents.
These diseases are largely preventable and it is with them that most of the work of prevention is to be carried on.
Of preventable diseases none should receive more attention than typhoid fever, because it is a great scourge and yet it can be prevented by simple means.
Preventable diseases may be divided into six classes: (1) Diseases caused by lack of proper hygiene.
A disease is considered preventable if, by using the best known means of treatment, it might be prevented or cured, so that either the disease or the death usually resulting from it would be avoided.
When I think of all the preventable sin and misery there is in the world, I pray God give us books of good intention--never mind the style!
That much of the misery was perfectly preventable never occurred to her, and if any one had suggested such a thing she would have been shocked.
Preventable poverty was the efficient handmaid of these two latter diseases.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preventable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
