Show communication I 1 note with interest the stand which our city fathers have taken in regard to the inoculation of our towns people and the expense attached thereto will say that they should be commended for the same I 1 understand that our local physicians would charge for each person inoculated we will suppose that 2500 people are treated that would amount to 1300 if we can get doctors to come here from another city to do this for I 1 think it is our privilege it seems to roe me that the doctors now days think that all they have to do is charge whatever they please and the people have to pay it I 1 understand that they are so well organized that no matter what they charge after they have called they can collect the price it seems that they forget that they depend on the support of the people where they are practising practicing if we did not have them they would not get this practice I 1 have lived in brigham all my life and there has been a good many doe doctors come and go after these young men get out of college they come out to the country to practise and some of them get to be real good physicians and as soon as they get to be proficient in this line they leave and go to the cities and we country people have to let another set of new ones practise on us I 1 have often wondered if we ve get the service we pay tor for from the doctors but it matter if we live or die we have to pay anyway it seems there ought to be some comeback somewhere the fees are getting so high that a poor man has to let his family suffer I 1 remember when we could get a broken bone set for 10 or 15 and the fracture was set right I 1 had occasion to call one of our local physicians to set a fractured collar bone for my little girl it took the doctor 25 minutes to do it and cost me 25 after it healed there was a bump on her neck about a quarter the size of an egg and the girl was ino in elined lined to be round shouldered but I 1 had to pay just the same I 1 used to think that a man should save sa ve for old age but I 1 have changed my mind now if misfortune enters a family now it takes all the money a man can save for twenty years to pay the doctor and the undertaker our legislators and statesmen would do more good to the public if they would regulate the prices these men dien charge for their services in the place of making other laws that no man mail can I 1 live up to they have laws in the european countries to this effect and wo to have them here I 1 am willing willing that the doctors should have pay for their services but I 1 think the rest of us ought to have a right to live as well as they R it if smith |