| Show I TOO ANY I Nurses Needed Moro rol Than New Now l j clans 11 IK Utah To 10 the Editor Battle Hattle Creek Minim Mich Nov 2 There ilias Ims recently bet been considerable said sad about establishing n U medical college In connection with the University of ot Utah It might be Le of or Interest to tho the traders readers of the th News to tolu know the time attitude of ot leading toward the th of ot new medical me colleges In America Several Se ral years ago 00 Dr cat hIli hIlior of or Baltimore said ald In his popular book I The lh Physician Himself There rheme has been beci of or late Into years a IL disproportionate annual addition to our already over profession and stat the time of pt the th United States Stales are aro mill Hilt turning thorn th m mour ou our oui at nt the tIme rate rille of ot more snore than a IL a year r without ut counting tho the readymade physicians ph Rotten RolleR by lIy Immigration Tim The result reI is la there are arc now in iii every com OW community three or tour four Jur doctors where one erie Is really needed ed Canada has lice one ono for Cor every 1193 1133 Inhabitants Austria Otto one for tor every oVery 2000 2900 Germany ono one for every Great one ono for tor every avey 1652 1662 Franco ono for fat every overy 1114 while wo we of or the United States blessed In physicians us as In iii everything else have counting both regulars and Irregulars ono one for Cor or every ev ry druggists In III proper tion c tho the above was written we have made wonderful progress The annual output of oC the time medical was wall then 2000 2010 It Is now JIOW Quackery In 10 medicine and Irregular practitioners practitioner have Increased sed at u a much greater ratio and there Is no evidence tint that disease has disappeared Anyone Anol who rends current medical literature must bo bu Irn with the fact that thu llio profession sion sian la Is overcrowded l Title This Is evident to any ammy nil vim one who will take the trouble to Investigate The following editorial op tip In Ia the Journal of ot the American Medical Association I July 27 1901 GRAD GRADUATES O AD UTES There r f are tiro probably p ann ana W luculent practitioners in mu roe tho United States or ono too to about aboul wry evry of oC the populace 1 Every Eer year about 1600 of them more or lets less le a may tony bt ht ex ox expected expected peeled to die rime Tho loss by emigration Is practically nothing Tho Tim territory Is rapidly being filled up III lii and nod some soma of or the lito newer states state have already alread a IL larger pro proportion portion of or physicians lJ titan than some of or tho the older ulder ones onen In 1890 1590 we were million In 1100 wo to are arc nn an average net Increase of 1000 W which while nt itt tho time ratio of on one physician to ff rit f people hardly hurdly a living allying ratio Tom for tho the would mould places pieces for nearly 1700 additional physicians annually This therefore with the 1000 or Oi so d vacancies by death would room for tor nearly now noI docton each year provided the tho amo isamo annual In Increase increase crease creasy In population continues i which Is perhaps dubious Our ICO I medical colleges however hoer turn cut Jut an nil annually u IL crop of or nearly graduates or over oVir 2000 more huh can cnn thus bo lie pro provided vided for Cor These It hould be bo remembered do not Include a tl vast vaRt number of ot practitioners Who ho hon nevertheless n have their shore share of or public patronage and thus serve perve to curtail the means of support of the recognized physicians nor the tho accessions lons from tt side sille tIm tho country b Three These farts facts are reviewed Ina in a recent Issue Is uc of or orthe the lie Chicago Tribune with comments comment l such as liB would naturally be he made upon such much n a showing It IH III is well for r Us to 10 occasionally refresh our memory with these thelle figures lI ures besting bearing n tie ill they do on aim questions of really r vital Interest Int rest to the profession It Is IB certain linin that t the multiplication of doctor factories has haB gone far enough In this country though git III 5 yet yH It does doe not fem seem C III to have been Itis a n com corn comparison parison that Ula t of tho the m graduate tell to the tim output of or a n machine shop but the he seine came principles s of ot political economy my ow apply In tim IL to tim both bOlli Over Overs production s In either has hns Its bad had effects and we have not lIot the tho of ot a n foreign market enjoyed by the ordinary manufacturers Time The same of ot ox ex cots CP II of doctors are complained of or abroad though Infinitely Il ler B evident than here and we win nh III apparently I have little prospect of n future for the American grad graduate unto to either here or elsewhere Tills This Is from the I medical jour Sour journal pal nal of America Anto anti And U is to ex express express press the sentiments of the profession Th Time great need nesti of tie tho present Is s good nurses lures ProfessIonal nurses nunes could conid w be round in until recently Borne lady doctors have done much to train tho young women for that lint Im Important work but the people need more trained nurses than more doe doc tons tors One lIti town In southern Utah boasts of having Young men nt at Colleges quite quit likely ther is not a trained nurse In their com Coni Many of our young people think law and medicine are th only professions worth The Ion of law Is its already overcrowded In Utah medicine If be becoming so A medical college worthy pf th the name would be a creat expense to the people of Utah If there Is a surplus of cacti cadi In our state It might very profitable be u uel ed In th limo publia where thousands would receive the tue benefit Very ery JOHN T 1 MILLER |
