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Show registerof physicians those cmpioyei! in the army and marine service physicians on men-of-war and on merchantmen; others do not. In some record's dentists arc carried as physicians, and in still others, though the number is less, veterinary vet-erinary surgeons arc borne. It is a fact, the knowledge of which is not perhaps generally diffused1, that under the enlarged New York charter the city will be to some extent in the line of succoring the sick. Section 325 declares that it shall be the duty of any police captain to register in a book kept for that purpose the name and address ad-dress of any person desiring or needing need-ing medical attendance, and thereupon one of the doctors registered in said j precinct is forthwith to be notified of the case requiring attention. If the. patient pays, well and good; if he doesn't, then the physician, is to present pre-sent hi9 claim to the department of health, which is to pay the physician three dollars in the case of indigent patients. N. Y. Sun. DOCTORS AND HEALTH. A Claim Mndc In Helinlf of Glnngrow and Some Facta Concerning? It. One docs not naturally look to ocot-land ocot-land as a source of supply of jokes and pleasantries, but there has recently appeared ap-peared (and it ,is now going the rounds of the press) what may perhaps bo described as a Scotch joke. It is as follows: "Greater Glasgow i.- often held up as a modern municipality. There is something in the claim. With a population of S53,000, it has only 491 doctors." Scotch physician hold a high rank in their profession; peril ips the fact should be considered as part of the joke that with a population of S53,000 Glasgow has only 404 doctors. There are in the United States more than 100.000 doctors, and it has not been observed by anybody that the death rate is less in those localities in which the number of physicians is small than in those in. which, as in New York and in most important northern cities, it is large. As a matter of tact, and as the official figures show, whatever what-ever may be the case in Glasgow, there are. actually more physicians in proportion pro-portion to the total number of inhabitants inhab-itants in Scotland, than in any other portion of the United Kingdom, the number of physicians and surgeons in Scotland being 850 per million inhabitants, inhab-itants, to 050 in Ireland, and 550 in England. Eng-land. Indeed, there arc more physicians physi-cians in proportion to the population in Scotland than in any other country of Europe. In Italy and Russia there are fewer than ?Q0 doctors for each million inhabitants; in. France, Germany, Ger-many, Spain, Holland and Belgium, there arc from 300 to 400. It is never possible to compute with entire accuracy, accu-racy, however, the number of physicians, phy-sicians, for, in tho computations. made in soru countries, rurgeons are in-; in-; eluded; in. other countries they are r.ot. Some European: countries cr rry on their |