The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-02

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View YORK. Aug. 3L--The service rend-
Grad bv DR.. Sopaia Fender Unger as sani-
torv irsnector to the New York board OF
Saaitb during the midsummer months has
-sIlaa a+tantion to the multiplication and
tba bigh professional standing of women
,bvsicja9s There are about 100 OF these n
reg,lar practice in New York, and Brook
I,n has a corresponding proportion. Phila-
jslnhia and Boston come next In the num-
bors supported, the City of Brotherly Love
Lovino 100 or thereabouts, and the Hub, II
one includes the circle of wideawake towns
within the radius Of its spokes, almost as
nanv Next years census will PROBABLY
ahoy a incubation of 3, 100 or $3.50 women
doctors in the north, the Middle states and
cha west; Dixie land, if one excerpts the
Virginias and Maryland, having been in
vsded only within very few years and IN
si'm force by the advance guard.
II is now thirty-eight years since DR..
Fli1abath Blackwell, one of the well-know n
tar,jIv of SISTERS, established herself in New
VorE as the first qualified woman physi-
zion Or Blackwell was the first woman
not only in the city but in America or Eng
iond to graduate in medicine a noteworthy
ovant II the year 1916 having been the
ennearance at a course of medical lectures
nj Young woman student whom the viva
cious Baltimore Sun advised TO cOnflne her
nractice TO diseases of the heart" and
whom the Boston Medical Journal spoke
of as "pretty little specimen of the feml-
nine gender, reporting her age as 20. She
oo al with CrrAat n
taxes off her bonnet and puts it under the
seat. exposing a fine phreuology." Two
wears after DR.. Elizabeth, who has lived
now for many years abroad, graduated her
sister. Dr. Emily Blackwell, and through
their Joint efforts was founded in 1858, as
a practical school for the instruction of
women STUDYING medicine, the New York
Infrmary for Women and Children, fol-
lowed in 1868 by the Woman's Medical
College. Five years earlier than this, in
1868. Dr. Clemence Lozier had founded q
homeopathic medical college for women
which sent out as its first graduate DR..
Emily Schetiue in 1854
To earn diploma in medicine in those
days required abundant capital of fortitude
and energy, but now when it has become
comparatively easy for woman to qualify
rs doctor it is probable that in many cases
the profession offers the best opportunities
to an educated woman of any work chat is
open to her Her chances for usefulness
among women, an increasing proportion OF
whom are yearly coming to prefer to be
treated by their own sex, hold out probably
the main inducement, and yet the financial
prospect of the case is not unpleasing. Some
years ago there was published an average of
the annualincomes of seventy-six graduates
ofthe Pennsylvania Women's Medical Col
lege. 1t was hard on the heels of So, OO0 1t
is safe to say that in few other businesses
would women make so good a showing.
Four of the seventy six were in receipt of
sums running above $4,000 Ten confessed
that they earned less than 1000. The
great majority mentioned figures ranging
between $1,000 and 5000. A woman ply
slcian in good practice in New York, when
asked to name figure that might fairly
represent the income to be expected by
young doctor during her first or second
year in the city, was inclined to fix on 5000
to $500 This is as good a start probably as
would be expected by the graduate of the
opposite sex. The fees Of the woman doctor
per visit are about the same as those of her
nrethren, and though there are no women
VINO receive anything like the sums exacted
by the great specialists, $40, SIS reven 500
lsacharge that is occasionally made for few
minutes attention by few of the foremost
women practitioners of New York. Phila-
ueiphia ana Chicago Comparatively few
properly qualified women doctors fail to
hud themselves able to support q modest
menage by the time they have been three
orlour years out Of school. The largest in
come received from fees by any woman
uoctor IN Boston Is said TO be something
res I'll IIah $ZO, OUO. The highest figure quoted
ior Fhlladeiphia is $4,000. The top notch
~ Ne~ YORK IS $4,000, and $4,000 is
Der, all told.
a; The cost Of a medical education does not
orno, h!eaUiy from that of three years of
an ordinary college course, the tuition
averaging IN the New York colleges a triAe
/ over SlU0 year, to which, of course. is to
p9 auued whatever one chooses to nav for
toho ~ and lodging. The allopathic and
sHe homeopathic colleges have each a hos
piVai specially attached, where the students
IgceiVe practical bedside instruction and
al One city dlspensaries with their clinics
are open 10 women. The Bellevue hosnitei
IL a lectures are also open. as we'll as
VI 60 anu surgical operations at the New
tbo NJ, hospital the Presbyterian hospital
Fva ~ I'LL ~ SINAI hospital, the New York
Fya 49, i1aI 4hlirmary aud the Manhattan
~ anu Far Intrmary. The New Work
anu the Kings county medical sooiat,a,
o auHnU women, and other special nadicoI
W. yo,JC' - such as toe American and Nav
oo' Neurologlcal Societies and the a mari
in i'm 9 Ocy Tor Physical Research take them
ard 3 VI Two hospitals both in New York
n 49, DIooAlyn have women among tbair
wards PIy Sl G or In charge of living IN
bocD Ia Brooklyn the f,ucratis NV
Capital cioa a was founded by a woman T,hvsio
II do am aIu Is othcered by women Ona soec;al
nS pai oinent IN which the services Of woman
81 rs1;di G,a ms are being called for is the
p;TIs Ay multiplying clubs of the working
81 settin,, rs snow their common seuse hy
"a by tbsS; @otue almost the first dues colleoted
ri dane e1l - VI ganlzation to secure the atten.
'ngs weekly. oii STATED even
IN schools o "unlan graduate of the medical
than She ff5 ages somewhat younger now
Of the doo ,t,l oozen years ago. The ranks
earlier Veora were recruited largely in the
4 tired Of tbot d lIoLn worn out school teachers
tresa and biaCcu patlon, but now it is the
q who are knco..1 illg alumnR of the colleges
y fessiono1 AAuu'pcKlng at the doors of tho ~
unda Dii al schools. No student ;S ~ WIG pro,
jior the age of 81, but this sdmi9s "t ~ te
trembIaSS ! ~ .9 the slender girl of 1S who
daily in az ~ the prospect of two To six bor.S
wit6 ba,, 'ue nlssecting room. Side hv So
who has b,, mGr KS very possibly her nother
of half a COZ through the joys and sorrows
An approo;.ti ana wears widows yveeds
are the daI-.-lee proportion of the strdants
end in opita > H ' OF practicing physicians
Pave SEM " a lumber Of instances doctorS
fhem int ,SI, wives that they might take
end of tFa Plolesslonal partnership of fbe
bout tbs Coursa' Twenty-seven wears ;s
ilg doctor sa, eiage age at which the bud