DOCTORS IN ONE BLOCK.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 179, 20 October 1903, Page 2

DOCTORS IN ONE BLOCK.

,• Sixty-Five Medic* Bare Their Shingles Out in That Space in Philadelphia. New York has the most thickly populated block in the United States, and .%n any curious congregations of men may be seen in its street. But Philo--j delphia. has the prize block for one species of aggregation. Sixty-fiv?; physicians live in one block in that city. It is also stated that within a radius of four blocks in that city, more than one-seventh of its medical practitioners is located, reports the New York Herald. From the tendency of physicians and dentists to congregate in one street certain blocks of this city present an almost unbroken array of doctors' signs upon the house fronts. It might seem to a casual observer that none but members of the medical profession reside there. In Chestnut street, Philadelphia, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets, this is almost literally true. Sixty-five physicians have ofllces there. Many of the most prominsiu practitioners located there many yoars ago, and younger physician* have of late years been attracted thither. Another factor in the surfeit is the area mentioned is almost the center of the ci£y. Yet neither in Philadelphia nor New York are there as great a number of physicians in proportion tr Ihe population as there are in the District of Columbia.