Dr. Evans' How to keep well; (1917) (14583556227)

Identifier: drevanshowtokee00evan (find matches)
Title: Dr. Evans' How to keep well;
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Evans, William Augustus, 1865- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Hygiene Sanitation
Publisher: New York, Pub. for Sears, Roebuck and co. by D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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ear. Individual bargaining is impossible. Wedo not know enough about it; also it would cost too much to order in smalllots. We must authorize our representatives, whosoever they may be, to repre-sent us in this matter. They, with their expert assistant, the commissionerof health, can buy it and deliver it to us at reasonable rates and guaranteesatisfaction. New, how much money are we going to give them for health protection,for insuring the health and lives of ourselves and of our children? Lastyear (surely, I do not want to embarrass any citizens, but the truth mustbe faced), last year, I say, we each handed our representatives the magnifi-cent sum of twenty-five cents and told them to buy us health protection forthat amount. Did we really expect to get efficient protection for that sum ? If we did,we have much to learn. If we did not, we have been playing the fool withourselves. In either case we have much to regret. The impossibility of buying health protection for the community at
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I CO ♦ * I zJo 0> o- UJ O to £ 1 ENDING WELL 5 twenty-five cents a head for a year is proved by several thousand unnecessarydeaths during the year. We thought we were striking a splendid bargain; but figure it up. Fig-ure up the loss of time, your doctors and undertakers bills, and you will findthat you have lost out; that you have paid dearly for what you thought youbought cheaply. We have lost both in money and in lives. Let us be sensible this time. A twenty-five-cent health department cannotefficiently protect us. Other cities are paying from fifty cents to one dollarper head. Chicago has done wonders with the little it has had, but it fell shortpitifully in proportion to the amount of good that could be accomplished witha more liberal appropriation for health purposes. A dollar a head is not too much. We spend much more privately and col-lectively for things that are of far less importance. Chicago cannot afford to have its babies die and its most useful men andwomen carrie