Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-01-02
DRUGS FOR A DIME.
ALL PRESCRIPTIONS ARE FILLED FOR
10 CENTS EACH.

A Chicago Iustitution That Is OF Untold
Service to the Suffering Poor-What Is
Done In the Various Branches OF 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 filled
for the sum of 10 United States cents.
The store is benevolent institution in
community which previous to its es-
Enlistment 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 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, 208,
210, 212 South Halsted street, 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
situations: The Harvey hospital, Harvey
Free dispensary, Harvey Training School
For Nurses, Harvey out practice, Har-
vey Medical college and Harvey Dime
drug store.
DIR. Marshall, DIR. Frances Dickinson
and DR.. Fife 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 the
poor Of this neighborhood; the Epworth
league looks to the preservation of dis
| eased and other souls, and Hull House
Christianly endeavors to promote affairs
| socially, but the Harvey settlement has
control from medicinal point of the
compass, and judging from its efficient
work since the Inauguration of its efforts,
Jan. 1, 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 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
in cases of extreme poverty or accident
are furnished free of charge. The inten-
ton 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 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 to place patients in the hos
pital.
Harvey dispensary is for immediate
attention to those who sustain acct
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. ]. 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 to
sick and injured unnecessarily SO small
the dispensary is not self sustaining It
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 eonrse
of instruction to women in the care of
sick and wounded that they may become
skillful and efficient nurses in the home
and in hospital wards Miss Westerberg
is superintendent of this branch of Har-
yey medical settlement and spares
neither time nor labor in teaching those
in 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 in
their homes. Sheis 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 tout practice" consists of adj
ministering 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 neighborhood
where no fit clothing is on hand for ba-
| bies.