violation of health
laws.

TABLE II

COST IN LIFE CAPITAL OF PREVENTABLE DISEASES[2]

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| | Multiply by the number of deaths for each
| Estimated | age group to learn the cost in life
| Value of | capital to your community in loss of life
Age | Human Life | from one or all preventable diseases.
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0-5 years | $1,500 |
5-10 " | 2,300 |
10-15 " | 2,500 |
15-20 " | 3,000 |
20-25 " | 5,000 |
25-30 " | 7,500 |
30-35 " | 7,000 |
35-40 " | 6,000 |
40-45 " | 5,500 |
45-50 " | 5,000 |
50-55 " | 4,500 |
55-60 " | 4,500 |
60-65 " | 2,000 |
65-70 " | 1,000 |
70- " | 1,000 |
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_Anti-nuisance_ motives do not affect health laws until people with
different incomes and different tastes try to live together. In a small
town where everybody keeps a cow and a pig, piggeries and stables
offend no one; but when the doctor, the preacher, the dressmaker, the
lawyer, and the leading merchant stop keeping pigs and cows, they begin
to find other people's stables and piggeries offensive. The early laws
against throwing garbage, fish heads, household refuse, offal, etc., on
the main street were made by kings and princes offended by such
practices. The word "nuisance" was coined in days when neighbors lived
the same kind of life and were not sensitive to things like house
slops, ash piles, etc. The first nuisances were things that neighbors
stumbled over or ran into while using the public highway. Next, goats
and other animals interfering with safety were described as nuisances,
and legal protection against them was worked out. It has never been
necessary to change the maxim which originally defined a nuisance: "So
use your own property that you will not injure another in the use of
his property." The thing that has changed and grown has been society's
knowledge of acts and objects that prevent a man from enjoying his own
property. To-day the number of things that the law calls nuisances is
so great that it takes hundreds of pages to describe them. Stables and
outhouses must be set back from the street. Every man must disp