Paying the doctor with a dollar a year is a plan which has long been in vogue in a North Carolina cotton mill town and which has recently been inaugurated by the medical director of the refugee districts and approved by the Greek Government.
Years ago the mills in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., of which Mr. S.F. Patterson is the head and director, adopted a cooperative plan for payment of doctor’s bills. Each person was taxed a small amount and a community doctor was employed to look after the sick, which service was free to the afflicted, with the exception of a small yearly assessment. It was to the doctor’s advantage to save all the time he could to keep the people well, and the last report from the government was that Roanoke Rapids had made a record in health statistics. Practically this same plan has been put over in Greece by the medical director of the refugees and approved by the Greek Government. Each person will be taxed $1 a year and 250 dispensaries, each in charge of a doctor, will be established throughout the district. The doctors will make tours on fixed dates through their field and emergency calls when necessary.
Special aim will be made to malaria and typhoid and other preventable diseases, and also stressed effort in cutting down the infant mortality rate.
From the front page of The Enterprise, Williamston, Martin County, N.C., Tuesday, Sept. 29, 1925
newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92073995/1925-09-29/ed-1/seq-1/
No comments:
Post a Comment