The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-01-09
DRUGS FOR A DIME.
ALL PRESCRIPTIONS ARE FILLED FOR
10 CENTS EACH.

n Chicago Institution Tint Is of Untold
Service TO tho Suffering Poor-what Is
Dono IN tho Various Branches of the
Harvey Medical Settlement.
Tho only dime drug store in tho world
ia located III South Halsted street, Chi
cago.
AT this d:cpensary all prescriptions,
regardless Of tho compounds, regardless
of the labor i'll compromising. arc filled
for tho sun Of 10 United States cents.
The store is a benevolent institution in
n community which previous to its es-
Establishment stood much in need Of be-
nevelenco it attracts an enormous trade
from he patrons for whose benefit it
was originated. The customers receive
the benefit and the drugs, aud the store
manages to weather financial storms,
though it might not be able to keep it's
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.
Tho drug store is part and parcel of
h Harvey Medical settlement, 2O8,
210, 213 South Halsted street, q portion
Of Chicago inhabited for the greater part
by shabby genteel, too proud to beg,
too honest to steal" and u 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, Har-
vey Medical college and Harvey Dime
drug store.
DR.. Marshall, DR.. Frances Dickinson
and DR.. Efio Lobdell, assisted by Miss
Amy Mace, a registered pharmacist in
charge of the drug store, and such ply
slcians WHO may chance to have patients
III the Harvey hospital have entire
charge of tho community, from a med
ical standpoint.
Other societies take an interest in the
poor of this neighborhood; the Epworth
league looks to the preservation of dis.
eased and other souls, and Hull House
christianity endeavors to promote affairs
socially, but the Harvey settlement has
control from n medicinal point of the
compass, and judging from its efficient
work since the inauguration Of it's efforts,
Jan. 1, 1894, it's 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 SO as to accommodate 80
sufferers. The services of the best men
and women physicians and surgeons are
accorded patients at a nominal cost and
Ill cases of extreme poverty or accident
are furnished free of charge. The inten-
tlon OF the management of the hospital,
as is the case in the government Of the
dime drug store, is to provide a 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 q
patient in n free hospital. And there are
poor and sick able to afford the cost of
treatment and nursing i'll a hospital of
this sort who could not pay the ordinary
cost attached to receiving proper medical
attendance. The income from patients
ut the Harvey hospital does not cover
h expense of maintaining the ~institu-
tion. Any physician of good standing is
permitted to place patients in the hos
pital.
Harvey %dispensary is for immediate
attention. tc these who \sustain acct
dc-;ts IN factorics and others who hc,o,.e
suddenly i'll, as is often tho es.6, from
living in filth and insufficiently yenti-
lated quarters, from crowding into tene.
ments and such similar causes common
to poorer districts Of large cities. j. A.
Clark, NJ, D., prcsides over the dispen-
lay aid tho place is kept open all day.
Treatment is furnished at a cost which
brings it within the reach Of even tie
most poverty stricken, as the charge to
sick and injured is necessarily so small
tho dispensary is not self sustaining. 1t
is admitted this dispcnsary is one Of tho
most useful and carefully managed il
tho city.
Harvey Training School For Nurses
furnishes q practical and thorough course
of instruction to womon i'll the care of
sick and wounded that they may become
slillful and efficient nurses III the home
and in hospital wards. Miss W~esterberg
is superintendent of this branch of Ear-
vcy medical settlement crd spares
neither time nor labor III teaching ihoso
i'll attenda.lc &c the art CT caring for Tie
sick. The school is prepared to furnish
trained n.i-ccs for service il or out of
town.
The Superintendent Of tho hospital
answers all calls to attend people in
their homes. She is Il frequently requested
to furnish her services to children and
looks to tho comforts of newborn babies