The New York herald., 1871-12-16

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sioian-"Who'l Pay tho BAH es-SBeggass
Arc Not Choosert.0
The grand passion for money which has OF late
brought politicians and business men 10 ruin seems
to have crept into every department OF human In
dustry; tho profession OF medicine is not reo
from Its contamination. This profession devoted
TO the interests OF suffering humanity has lately
been perverted to serve the interests or the pockets
Of o few interlopen whose devotion to science
Ia proportional with their knowledge OF iG
Our dispensaries, which are 80 much lauded
for their interest in and devotion to nrm humanity.
have lately been maze the means whereby certain
parties connected with them might slack their inor
dinae greed for lucre To say that this Is the case
in all our dispensaries would be untrue; but that t
Ia the case with some. more especially the
YoRKvILLE DIspENsARY,
cannot be denied. To this establishment must DO
yielded the palm or heartlessness and inc0nsidera-
ion It's attaches, not satisfied with the wages they
receive from the CITY, look also for emolument from
the poor people they attend and II the required fee
be not paid they will not even c0ndescend to look
at the patient.
Such lnhumanity as this would not be tolerated In
the Fiji Islands, and yet the devOtees OF science III our
midst consider 1t as a legitimate means OF making
fortune. 'Man's inhumanity to man" Is proven
Olais Dut tno lOuOWiDB Case ~ CcfChiHiy WAtuuuS
parallel IN the history OF heartlessness. poor
woman, residing at Sevcnty-slXth street and avenue
A, called on Friday at the dispensary, between
Eighty third ana Eignty-fourth streets, on Third
avenue, TO ask TO have physician call ana see her
husband, who was down with the fever she
waited patiently for day and hall, but, as the
doctor failed to put IN an appearance she decided
to go to her brOther-in-law, VINO had previously
shown her much Kindness and ask him to send y
doctor to see her husband. On Monday doctor
who afterwards proved to be The one from the dis
pessary, walked IN. What followed will be found In
THE wOMAN's OWN STORY.
"On Monday morning Q doctor came to the house
and tn0ught It was the one my bro;her+nlaw sent,
so asked him VINO sent HIM. Myself SAID ne, and
without another word he asked, who'll pay the
bllF told him / was poor and II the neigh50rS
were not so kind didn't know what I'd do. You
can't have my services for nothing, said ne and
was going to leave when asked him II ne wouldn't
20 in and see my husband. told him had four
children, and the eldest was only ten years Old; but
he dlin't want to listen to me and was going to 60
when told him would like him to 60 and see my
husband and tell me what alled him. 'Be3gars are
not ehoosers SAID ne, and out ne went, siamming
the door behind him. When ne was gone about an
hour or 80 the doctor from my brOtnerIn-law came.
He told me my husband mad the typhoid fever and
he could not 1--we lOnQ; but said II he had nad doc
tor day or two before he miget have lived.
have the rheumatism 80 bad That l cannot move
about. What Will I 40 II he diesy have four
children, and don't know how III support inem."
The poor woman was very much anected during
the recital OF the latter part oil her story She Is
an Intelligent brlght-l0oKlng Irish woman and mas
rheumatism so bad that she cannot IN We about
without the greatest paln The Commissioners OF
Charities and Corrections should look after this
case.