Show ECONOMIC SYSTEM TO BLAME that so many people need treatment li Is a result of unwise ordering of thing things we ive are very proud of our hospitals but we must not be blind to 0 o their beir shortcomings Normus nor must tebe we ix blind to the fact that there an are altogether too many people in hospitals that of course is largely due to our bad economic and industrial systems bad housing preventable occupational diseases alcoholism and many other opp robna of the present social order account for many of our sins against the laws las of health the hospital itself often falls short with respect to the care of venereal cases the insanities insani ties decent privacy the social service spirit the spirit of bar ity in the case of those for whom the hospital receiver no pay from the city or re laties the segregation of children before admission to the wards until the incubation periods of the infectious diseases are partied the care of contagious caes when they do deN develop elop considerate and humane in reception and tactful lindly kindly and private interrogation of applicants the character and pay of orderly service and on many other counts ideally vre we are still in the dark ages mith respect to the hospital but every beir pees fees a nearer approach to what should be and the ideala ideal are not lost fight of by anyone medical difed teal tj times mes |