Bisbee daily review., 1911-08-13

would practically rid the community of all need (outside of accidents and small residunm of individual dis easel for practitioners as headers and would allow the national medical officers Co devote practically all their lime and energies 10 their proper functions. yiz, the education of the public ia personal hygiene and sanitation of infectious dis eases.
 Plenty Of Work.
 There would be work enough in this direction alone. he maintains too. for all the 32 900 medical men on the British register, whose la bors he considers at present almost wasted because they are misdirected. owing Co the present methods of st- tackipg disease which are mediaeval iu their antiquity and ign0vnoe
 'The cost of thls revolution would be borne by a unified system Of state insurance against sickness. with contributions from the work. man. tbe employer, and the state. He adduces figures to show that the sum now annually spent by individ- uals and the state on medical fees. sanitary officers, anti-uberculosis measures, &c.. and lost through loss cf wages, provision for the unfOrt- unate, and other economic drains. would suffice by merely a change of method in collection. Then the sums that would be paiG to the govern nent as 9 tax instead of as ex- psnses now borne by individuals would so amply provide a fair aver age income for each of the existing practitioners thal mere would really 5e no new national expenditure entailed.
 The gradual evolution of such a service, the author believes, could ! be brought about in the course ol | ct most twenty tor twenty-five years withOat any sudden or revolutionary l procedures.
 As soon as the proposed state 1 Insurance came into action a state examination should be established for entry into the state medica ] service.
 Some Details.
 For the first three years the en trants into the service should bt ! sent into the state hospitals whici the new scheme would inevitably require At the end of the thre, years a basis would have been ob tained on which incomes could b, l calculated, and then the induce
 ments of a steady income based On these figures. with retiring al lowance at. say e. years, should bt ! offered to induce men in privat, practice to enter the service.
 Vacancies by death and retire ment could be filled from the mer undergoing training in the state hos
 pitals, and the author seems san guine that in three years a large number of existing practitioners } would elect 10 join the state medical | service, which in twenty-five years would have automatically established l itself by the natural process oi : slow growth"
 The author proceeds to tell ir detail how territory would be di vided up among the state doctors and the routine ftheir daily work ' Here are the advantages tD the medical profession, as poiD' cd out ! by DT. Moore:
 An assured income; a settled pro. ! vision for the future as retiring | allowance; relief from clerical work | bill collecting, &c; relief from the | dilemma of a charge of neglect on l the one hand or of makign business ! on the other; equal opportunities for i the training, consequent on hospital work, leisure, and study time. abo- litiOn of professional jealousy. the ] breadth Of training a-:55i opportunity from being moved about from place to place: the abolition of cheap ! practice and of hospital abuse.
 For the public, competent attend 2nce under all circumstances, no scanlped work, no worry about fees leading to unnecessary and possibly dangerous delay in soaking aid, prevention of sickness rather than cure, and consequent saving in money as well as distress, menta. and material"