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Show Medical Care in Rural i Areas Is Inadequate ' In the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Rowntree, chief of the medical division of the selective service system writes: "Surveys of the health situation among the rural families in some of the states indicate that a large proportion of farmers have poor health, that the facilities for health services are below normal requirements require-ments and that there Is a pitiful inadequacy in-adequacy of the care provided regularly reg-ularly for the lower income families. fam-ilies. An analysis of some of the sur-! veys indicates that between one-third one-third and one-half of the lower income in-come groups have no medical or dental care whatsoever. Of the 16,-000 16,-000 cases of serious Illness reported by farm families In Texas and Oklahoma, Okla-homa, lest than one-half had a doctor's doc-tor's care. Only one out of thre births was attended by a physician." Because of the inadequacy ir most rural counties of the public health services and hospitals, thtj death rate at almost any age leve I Is greater in rural areas than ir urban centers. |