Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-10-21 | Page 9 | Man Fails to Receive Medical Aid and Passes Away

MI FAILS TO RECEIVE j MEDICAL AID A! PASSES AWAY I 1 "Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn." You may think that an did copy book maxim, max-im, outworn and no longer relevant. But listen. "Only four days ago in this city of Ogden one of our best respected respect-ed medical men found a poor working fellow lying down and out, and black in the face, suffering in the last stages of pneumonia in a neglected room where it seems he had suffered for ten days with no care and none to care for him. It also appears that out of his wages from week to week he paid into a fund that should bring him medical attondanco in the day of his need. On the first day of his sickness sick-ness his medical man saw him, and from that day saw him no more. The doctor who was called in at the last moment had tho poor fellow taken over to the emergency hospital where the nursos had time only to lay him down on his cot, bathe him, and he passed away. This man paid for medical attendance atten-dance in advance. He did not got it. Because he did not get what he paid for he died. Now read the first sentence of this story again. Mark it in your minds.! This story is true. oo