Preventable Fire Waste.

Preventable Fire Waste.

在该角色的前一个国民议会中，国家消防承销商已经代表并认真地努力描绘了可预防的消防浪费的巨大性及其对我们国家增长和繁荣的影响。在我们组织的每次年度会议上，都为公众和新闻界准备并提​​供统计信息，并阐明财产的巨大货币价值，该财产每年都会在我们国家每年被大火摧毁。为了说服我们的人民，每年通过可预防的火灾，我们的统计和火灾委员会在联邦政府的帮助下，每年消除了大量的真实财富将城市和国家与美国和美国整体城市的火灾损失进行了比较，并减少了人均损失。这些数字是由国家消防承销商在1906年出版的。比较令人震惊，以吸引非常广泛的关注，并为消防运动提供了活动。该地理调查通过其技术分支机构调查了1907年美国的火灾损失和防火成本，并发布了第418号公告，称为“美国的火税税和浪费在美国的结构材料” -在其论点中提出和无可辩驳的事实中最令人印象深刻的小册子。我们引用了一节：

“The investigation disclosed the fact that the total cost of fires in the United States in 1907 amounted to almost one-half the cost of new buildings constructed in the country for the year. The total cost of the fires, excluding that of forest fires and marine losses, but including excess cost of fire protection due to bad construction, and excess premiums over insurance paid, amounted to over $456,485,000, a tax on the people exceeding the total value of the gold, silver, copper and petroleum produced in the United States in that year. The cost of building construction in 49 leading cities of the United States reporting a total population of less than 18,000,000 amounted, in 1907, to $661,076,286, and of the cost of building construction for the entire country in the same year is conservatively estimated at $1,000,000,000. Thus it will be seen that nearly one-half the value of all the new buildings constructed within one year is destroyed by fire. The total fire cost in this country is five times as much per capita as in any country of Europe. This, fire cost was greater than the value of the real property and improvements in any one of the following states: Maine, West Virginia, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Alabama, Louisiana, Montana. The actual fire losses due to the destruction of buildings and their contents amounted to $215,084,709, a per capita loss for the United States of $2.51. The per capita losses in the cities of the six leading European countries amounted to but 33 cents, or about one-eighth of the per capita loss sustained in the United States In addition to this waste of wealth and natural resources, 1,449 persons were killed and 5,654 were injured in fires. The total loss on buildings in the United States was $109,156,894, and on contents $105,927,815. There were fires in 36,140 brick, iron and stone buildings, with a loss of $31,092,687 on the buildings and $17,332,580 on the contents, and in 129,117 frame buildings, with a loss of $78,064,207 on the buildings and $68,595,235 on the contents. In cities and villages with a population of 1,000 or more, there were 6,324 fires that extended beyond the building of origin, with a total exposure loss of $13,913,094 The loss on fires that were confined to the build ing of origin in the cities and villages amounted to $93,179,589.”