Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1896-02-13
DRUGS FOR A DIME.
ALL PRESCRIPTIONS ARE FILLED ron
10 CENTS EACH.

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 i'll compromising, are filed
for the sum Of 10 United States cents.
The store il a benevolent institution il
community which previous 10 its es-
/ tablishment 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, aud the store
manages to weather financial storms,
\ though it might not be able 70 keep its
| head above water without the more than
occasional donation of stocks Of patent
medicines and prepared foods which
I Chicago manufacturers donate To keep
/ the charity institution on its feet.
The drug store is part and parcel of
the Harvey Medical settlement, POS,
/ 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
cti+,t5D,,.. TIE TJor--rr- t.1.-~,s+,1 IT,.
4 Free dispensary, Harvey Training School
For Nurses, Harvey out practice, y Har-
vey Medical college and Harvey Dime
drug store.
| DR.. Marshall, DR.. Frances Dickinson
and DR.. Effie Lobdell, assisted by Miss
Amy Mace, a 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 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
ChrisJianly endeavors to promote affairs
socially, but the Harvey settlement has
control from a medicinal point of the
compass, and Judging from its efficient
work since the inauguration Of its efforts,
Jan. 4, 1894 it, labOrs have been
crowned with warranted success The
Harvey hospital was opened Oh that date
and started in business with seven beds
and four patients, and has since been
reconstructed so as to accommodate 30
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 iBten-
ton Of the management of the hospital,
as is the case in the government Of the
dime drug store, j. I'd provide a proper
place for wcrthy poor, who do not like
the county hospital because Of the al
most general aversion to being cl9ssed
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 10 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 il
permitted I'd place patients in the hos
pital
Harvey dispensary il for immediate
attention to those who sustain acci-
dents in factories and others who become
suddenly i'll, as is often the case, from
living in filth and insuficiently venti-
lated quarters, from crowding into tene.
ments and such similar causes common
TO poorer districts of large cities. J. A.
Clark, NJ. D., presides over the dispen-
sary and the place il kept open all day.
Treatment il furnished at d cost which
brings it within the reach Of even the
most poverty stricken, as the charge tc
sick and injured il necessarily 50 small
the dispeDsary is not self sustaining. II
is admitted this dispensary is one Of the
most useful and carefully managed in
the city.
Harvey Training School For Nurses
furnishes a practical and thorough course
of instruction to women in the care OF
sick and wounded that they may become
skillful and efficient nurses in the home
and i'd hospital wards Miss Westerberg
il superintendent Of this branch Of Har-
vev medical settlement and spares
neither time nor labor id teaching those
in attendance the art Of caring for the
sick. The school i prepared to furnish
trained nurses for service in or ont 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 eraciously assists afflicted families
il times Of death among their little
ones. The out practice consists OF ad
ministering to children's wants such a:
do not come in the medical category and
is often called upon to supply children 4
clothing There are many cases among
people in this immediate DeighbOrhood
where no fit clothing is on hand for ba
bies.
Harvey Medical college is coeduca
tional and Of the regular school Of medi-
cine Medical lectures are given even
ings, thus according an opportunity q
attendance to those who are otherwise
employed during the day. The course d
instruction is made all the more prac
teal because Of the schools connection
with the hospital Among the students
are found persons of all callings, sucf
as teachers, druggists. clerks. nurses anC
stenographers, who have become inter
ested in the work.
Harvey Medical settlement is, in th'
opinion of those who have investigated
it, the right thing in the right place i
is supplying long felt want in Ions
wanting community. Chicago Tribune
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