TY  - JOUR
T1  - THe uses of increasing leisure
Y1  - 1929/06/08
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1929.02700490071014
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1971
EP  - 1972
VL  - 92
IS  - 23
N2  - In a report on national vitality prepared twenty years ago by Irving Fisher1 of Yale University for the National Conservation Commission, the reader was reminded on the basis of the conditions existing at that time that whatever diminishes poverty or increases the physical means of welfare has the improvement of health as one of its first and most evident effects. Therefore, the report adds, an important method of maintaining vital efficiency is to conserve our natural resources—our land, our raw materials, our forests and our water. Only in this way can we obtain food, clothing, shelter and the other means of maintaining life. Conversely, the conservation of health will tend in several ways to the conservation of wealth. First of all, the more vigorous and long-lived the race, the better utilization can it make of its natural resources. The labor power of such a race is greater, more intense,
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1929.02700490071014
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700490071014
ER  -