Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-01-17
DRUGS FOR 4 DIME.
a.. PRESCRIPTIONS ARE FILLED FOR
10 CENTS EACH.

| A Chicago Institution That Is Of Untold
Service to tho SaCsrins Pocr-wsat Is
DcEc In the Various Branches CT the
Harvey Medical Settlement.
The only dime drug store in the world
Is located in South Halsted street, Chi
cago.
At 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 III
| q community which previous TO its es-
| tablishmont stood much in need of be-
| nevolence; it 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 to weather financial storms,
| though it might net 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
tho Harvey Medical settlement, eos,
| 2l0, 2l2 South iialstcd street, portion
| Of Chicago inhabited for the greater part
by shabby gentcel, too proud 20 beg,
too honest to steal" and a Still lower
class not affected by the aforementioned
pride.
The medical settlement is constituted
OF the following named charitable in
situations: The Harvey hospital, Harvey
Free dispensary, Harvey Training School
For Nurses, Harvey "out practice, - Ear-
vey Medical college ard Harvey Dime
drug store.
D.. Marshall, Dr. Frances Dickinson
and DR.. Ellie Lobdell, assisted by Miss
Amy Mace, 4 registered pharmacist in
charge Of the drug store, and such ply
sicians who may chance to have patients
III the Harvey hospital have entire
charge Of the community, from med
icai standpoint.
Other societies take an interest in the
poor OF this neiphborhood; the Epworth
league looks to the preservation of dis
| cascd and other souls, and Hull House
Chrisrianly cnGcavors to promote affairs
socially, but the Harvey settlement has
control from Il medicinal point Of the
compass. and judging from its efficient
work since the Inauguration CT its efforts,
Jan. /, 1894, its labors have been
J crowned with warranted success. The
| Harvey hospital was opened on that date
and started i'll business with seven beds
and four patients, and has since been
| rpslnSt ruptsi n oopDTpT,,g,'.,tn
| sufferers. The services of the best men
and women Physicians and surgeons are
accorded patients at 4 nominal cost and
i'll cases of extreme POVERTY or accident
are furnished free Of charge. The inton-
ton Of the management of the hospital,
| As Is the case i'll the governments 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 4
patient i'll Il free hospital. And there are
poor and sick able TO afford the cost of
treatment and nursing in n hospital of
this sort who could not pay the ordinary
cost attached to receiving proper medical
attendance. Tho income from patients
| to tiAp ilAi iAS-liAieAi USto lipt CO|GT
the expense of maintaining the institu-
ton. Any physician CT good standing is
permitted TO place patients in the hos
pital.
Harvey dispensary is for immediate
attention to those who sustain acct
dents i'll factories and others who become
suddenly i'll, as is often the case, from
living IL filth and insuificiently venti-
lated quarters, from crowding into tene-
menis and such similar causes common
to poorer districts of large cities. J. A.
Clark, II. D., prcsides over the dispon-
sary and tho 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 to
sick and injared Is necessarily so small
tho dispansary is not self sustaining. 1t
is admitted this dispensary is one Of 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
skilIful 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
i'll attendance the art Of caring for the
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 III
their homes. She is frequently requested
to furnish her services to children and
looks TO the comforts of newborn babies
and eraciousiy assists afflicted families
in times Of death among their little
ones. The "out practice" consists Of ad-
EinisterinS to 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 neiShborhood
where no fit clothing is Oh hand for la.
bies.
Harvey Medical college is coeduca-