Excerpt from American Business Methods: For Increasing Production and Reducing Costs in Factory, Store, and Office Men work best when they are happiest. If this is true, it follows that the carrying out of plans looking toward the establishment of healthful surroundings and harmonious relations in all lines of business must result in increased efficiency and maximum production. Health in relation to industry is receiving more serious attention as time goes on. The average duration of a human life is years. If we should succeed eventually in eliminating prevent able diseases, this figure would be changed to sixty years. Furthermore, if one day we should save the children who now die needlessly from ignorance on the part of parents and improper care, the nation would have at least more healthy grown-ups, each produc ing no less than $3 of wealth a day. In other words, a low state Of hygiene in the matter of child health costs the United States every twenty-four hours. NO one can take a broad view of a country's business and yet fail to consider the health of the citizenship as a prime essential. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.