Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-08-22


The Journal of the American Med
Zeal association is of the opinion that
Crowded MedI- there is a surplus
of doctors in the
froiessioh' United States, and
regrets that the surplus is increasing.
There is now one doctor to every 600
of population. AS this is not on the
whole an unhealthy country, one ply
sician ought to be able to look after
the aches and pains of 1000 ordinary
people. Wherever more men are en-
ployed to perform any kind of service
than are actually needed, either the
community has to pay too much for
services rendered or some of the men
employed must be unable to make
more than a bare living, if they make
that. According to the journal 600
doctors die yearly, in spite of their
skill, but almost 5000 are born. The
medical colleges, although the require
ments are severer than formerly, are
turning out 6,000 graduates year. If
this keeps on, how long will it be be-
fore there is one doctor for every 100
of the population? Then societies
will have to be organized for the relief
of starving NJ. DIS 1t is odd, remarks
the Chicago Tribune, that so many
young men should wish to study medi-
cine when there are so many doctors,
and when the physician has to face the
nf haa
prayer healers. Probably the oft
quoted statement that there is al
ways room at the top" in an over
crowded professo is responsible for
the existence of numbers of poor law
yers and doctors. Nearly every young
man who is about to begin the study of
medicine is convinced that he will
reach the top and will get the big fees
for surgical operations or medical
treatment that he reads of. Perhaps
he will, but the chances are about two
thousand to one against him. This is
a point which medical colleges, ma
turally enough, do not impress on stu
dents. They do not endeavor to dis
ing to pay them money for an educa-
ton. But it would be a kindness to
many of these, and to the community
generally, if the authorities of medical
colleges would tell many of their stu
dents that while "there is always room
at the top they never will get there
nor half way there-but will remain
near the bottom, where it is always
overcrowded, and hence ought to drop
medicine and turn to sonnet hing else
One of the members of the United
States geological survey recently
A strilsipp Com called attention to
a striking contras st
in the development
of the country lying on each side of the |
boundary line between Oregon and
Idaho. In southwestern Idaho, near
Boise City and the state line, there is |
a considerable section well developed |
by irrigation. Owing to the combined |
advantages of the rich character of the |
soil, the favorable conditions of the |
climate and irrigation, this district |
contains some of the best fruit grow
ing country in the world. Just on the
other side of the state line, in Oregon,
along the Malheu and Owyee rivers ex.
actly the same conditions exist-riv.
ers, soil and climate-with the eXcep-
tion of the application of water to the |
land by irrigation the vital condition.
In consequence this section, though |
but few miles distant from The other |
and just as capable of high develop. |
ment, is desert country. Here is the |
whole important question of irriga-
ton in the arid west in a nutshell, with |
it, homes, farms and industry; with
out it, desert.
Enterprising game dealers in the
west are said to be arranging
storage trust of quail. Several states