The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-01-22
DRUGS FOR A DIME.
ALL PRESCRIPTIONS ARE FILLED foa
10 CENTS EACH.

Done In the Various Branches OF the
Harvey Medical Settlement.
Tho only dime drug store in the world
is located in South Halsted street, Chi
cago.
Al this dispensary all prescriptions,
regardless Of the compounds. regardless
of the labor in compromising, are filed
for the sum Of 10 United States cents
The store is benevolent institution in
a community which previous TO its es-
adjustment stood much in need of be-
nevolence il attracts an enormous trade
from the patrons for whose benefit it
was originated. The customers receive
the benefit and the drugs, and the store
manages 10 weather financial storms.
trough it might not be able to keep its
head above water without the more than
occasional donation of stocks of patent
medicines and prepared foods which
Chicago manufacturers donate TO keep
the charity institution on its feet.
The drug store is part and parcel of
the Harvey Medical settlement EOS.
2l0, 2l2 South Halsted street, a portion
Of Chicago inhabited for the greater part
by shabby genteel, too proud TO beg.
too honest to steal, +" and still lower
class not affected by the aforementioned
pride.
The medical settlement is constituted
of the following named charitable in
stitutions The Harvey hospital, Harvey
Free dispensary. Harvey Training School
For Nurses. Harvey ''out practice, Har-
vey Medical college and Harvey Dime
drug store.
DR.. Marshall. DR.. Frances Dickinson
and DIR. Efiie Lobdell, assisted by Miss
Amy Mace. registered pharmacist in
charge Of the drug store, and such ply
sicians who may chance to have patients
in the Harvey hospital have entire
| charge Of the community. from med
ical standpoint
| Other societies take an interest in tho
poor Of this neighborhood; the Epworth
league looks TO the preservation of dis
eased and other souls and Hull House
Christianity endeavCrs TO promote affairs
socially, but the Harvey settlement has
control from medicinal point Of the
compass, and judging from it,. sssi''1 ,6tt
work since the Inauguration of its effoi,..
Jan /, 1894, its labors have been
crowned with warranted success The
Harvey hospital was opened on that date
and started in business with seven beds
and four patients, and has since been
reconstructed sc Is to accommodate 80
1 emf Tha ~ ha ar,
and women physicians and surgeons are
accorded patients at nominal cost and
in cases of extreme poverty or accident
are furnished free of charge The inten-
tion of the management of the hospital.
as is the case in the government Of the
dime drug store, is to provide proper
place for worthy poor, who do not like
the county hospital because Of the al
most general aversion to being classed
among paupers. resulting from being a
| patient in free hospital And there are
poor and sick able to afford the cost Of
treatment and nursing in a hospital Of
this sort who could not pay the ordinary
cost attached to receiving proper medical
attendance. The income from patients
at the Harvey hospital does not cover
the expense of maintaining the institu-
tion. Any physician Of good standing is
| permitted 70 place patients in the hos
pital.
| Harvey dispensary is for immediate
attention to those who sustain aoci-
dents in factories and others who become
suddenly i'll, as is often the case, from
| living in filth and insufficiently venti-
lated quarters. from crowding into tene-
ments and such similar causes common
to poorer districts of large cities J. A
| Clark, M. D., presides over the dispen-
sary and the place is kept open all day.
Treatment is furnished at cost which
brings it within the reach of even the
most poverty stricken, as the charge 10
sick and injured IL necessarily so small
the dispensary is not self sustaining. 1t
is admitted this dispensary is one Uf the
most useful and carefully managed in
the city.
Harvey Training School For Nurses
furnishes practical and thorough course
Of instruction TO women in the care OF
sick and wounded that they may become
slillful and efficient nurses in the home
and in hospital wards. Miss westerberg
is superintendent Of this branch Of Har
vey medical settlement and spares
neither time nor labor in teaching those
in attendance the art of caring for thr
sick. The school is prepared to furnish
trained nurses for service in or out Of
town.
The superintendent Of the hospital
answers all calls to attend people in
their homes. She is frequently requested
TO furnish her services TO children and
looks to the comforts of newborn babies
and graciously assists afflicted families
in times Of death among their little
ones. The "out practice" consists of adj
ministering 10 children's wants such as
do not come in the medical category and
is often called upon to supply children's
clothing There are many cases among
people in this immediate neighborhood
where no fit clothing is Oh hand for ba
bies.
Harvey Medical college is coeduca.
tional and Of the regular school OF medi-
cine Medical lectures are given even
inRs, thus according an opportunity OF
attendance 10 those who are otherwise
employed during the day. The course Of
instruction is made all the more pr,c.
teal because Of the schools connection
with the hospital Among the students
are found persons Of all callings. such
as teachers. druggists, clerks. nurses and
stenoeraphers. who have become inter
ested i'm the work.
Harvey Medical settlement is, in the