Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-28


and she'll grow worse. Now. tell you what I'm going
to do. If you don't get glasses for that girl don't give
her at least chance to get started IN lite, m going to
report to the Charities and have them investigate YOU
I'm going to send them down here to if you too
poor to spend dollar and quarter to prevent this
little girl going blind. Will you like that?'
1t evident to the meaneSt intelligence that they
filled with CONSERVATION at the thought. They had
grasped the principle underlying the effort of the
community to avoid having to support blind citizens
They simply ashamed of being thought poor
to need charity.
Al got EN- that time!" chuckled the school doctor as
went down the stairs. Il hate to that kind of
club but I've been there twice before, and that child
has simply got to have glasses she will be hampered
all her life Oh, have all sorts of methods; but
there times when am at my wits end. There was
one little girl who had bad of adenoids as ever
sawcoudn get enough air past them to keep her half
supplied with yet the mother of that child
wouldn't do thing kept going to see her and using
every argument could invent but she said she couldn't
afford it. Finally | really got angry-you may have
noticed that sometimes pretend to get angry when
I'm not-well just turned suddenly her and cried
out:
"You tell me you can't afford to take your child to
the doctor-you with all those expensive puffs your
head!
'P-u-u-ffs!'
AYES, puffs,' said l. 'puffs and two willow plunes!
I've seen EN-! And not enough money to have your
"Discouragng sometimes; but so interesting! And
they know that don't get anything of their being
i'll. and trust so that can give them advice that
couldn't very well give to my private patients who
paying much a visit
It's great incentive to be paid for doing your work
well instead of doing it ILL., The public service physician
responsible for district that nermittenty placarded
with scarlet fever and dphthera signs neither build
ing up her own income nor getting IN line for promotion
TT certainly focusing her attention lucra-
tive practice that put Dr. Josephine Baker at the
head of the Bureau of Child Hygiene of New York city,
one OF the most important medical positions IN the
ond largest city in the world and gave her charge of all
that the city could afford to have its children in i'll
health DIR. Baker has built up system OF medical in
spection of school children that is only model
for the whole country, but which doctors have come
from as far as Australia to study
Now, of course. women doctors have had good deal
to fight in country where, whatever the advance
guard may think the majority believe that the only
right place for is in the home, regardless of
the domestic congestion that would produce the
timent Of the home the subject; bu,, though every
step in progress shocks somebody and the only way
win universal approval is stand STILL does
hear from DR.. Baker the other in the public
service any cry about discrimination against them
women. aWhen was appointed to this position, said
DIR. Baker, L went to the board and made cursy be-
fore them What are you going to do about the petit
coats? asked, because there had been opposition
women in such Offices"
"'Wel said they, we've decided that that is your
problem. You'll have to struggle with them and the
disadvantages and misunderstanding they bring your
self
And do you know. nobody seems to think now
whether m a woman or man. they think OF me
ply as the director OF the Department OF Child Hygiene
In her work DIR. Baker is not fighting for PATIENTS in
stead, she is directing work that should considerably
lessen the aggregate medical practice in the city. 1t
looks like mighty good business for the public, think
of the doctors bills they will save.
THIS idea, that it's their duty to keep down doctors
bills, is being put pretty strongly to the medical
profession 1t isn't queting have Bernard Shaw say
that you're not profession but conspiracy, and the
Public Health Education Committee of the American
Medical Association has rung the bell for the doctors to
theVc To he
charge that physicians prosper because people ILL.,
this committee aims to establish in the community a
high standard OF health just trying to estab
Sh high standard of business efficiency in their estab
ShIneptS and the and cont rn Of this