Show REDUCE TARIFF ON BABIES advice given by puck to new york doctors who are not too well off financially american medicine says that the economic problems of the practicing physician are dally daily becoming more se rious and that 60 per cent ot of the phy in new york are not earning tl 1500 a year it says there ie Is trou brou ble somewhere and finds some of it in the too rapid growth of special ism beyond all needs and demands I 1 there or thereabouts we guess la is the main trouble most families can afford a family doctor to tell them what s the matter and what to do but comparatively few families can af ford a doctor who must ask some oth er doctor what hat alls ails them and then call in a third or fourth to do some thing it Is not that all the doctors may not be amply worth their tees fees I 1 but that the families have not got the money to divide among so many fifteen hundred dollars Is not an erces sive doctor s bill tor for so simple an event as a new baby in a moderate ly well todo to do new york family edier edler ly people who are out of the habit of having babies can often afford such a ee and would cheerfully pay it it if they eee tad ad occasion but rash young people who are the ones who have the babies when there are any can t possibly them at that rate and they don t of course but as a rule they pay more than they can afford and have it deep ly impressed upon them that bable are beyond their means but babies are the beginning and mainstay of the doctors business they mean fees at the start and then patients they should be welcomed not scared off we recommend the physicians to reduce the tariff on babies in the interest of trade puck |