GERMANY'S 30,000 DOCTORS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 714, 13 January 1910, Page 5

GERMANY'S 30,000 DOCTORS.

, • Germany is .liternlly.overrun ,witt'do<>.:S ; ii.i? : tors' (says., the Stuttgart' correspondent ; of .the ."New. York^Vorld"J. v.Drs.';KeusS and^f'-} Eosner,' .of, this city,, have' compiled somo interesting, statistics .on. the - .number K.'of :S' : : ■>$ physicians .in-the Empire.:-The"popula» v'?,iSi tion'in 1885 -.was„':in;;:round :! numberv'"'(p. ■ 40,000,000. In 1907' it was 6!,000,000-an , increase-of-30 per ber of physicians was ,about -15,000;y\xa'~'fr-Vi-'S one to every'3,ooo: persons. vltiV 1907; '■ number, of physicians had:increased ito JSfci : 30,000,- or one, to'every 2000 perkns;; ■ T]m' <v Sv^ increase, in physicians 'in this period was,' thi^di%'moporls()Datelr(mbrK.thin''''th'iw% : ii's ■ timis. greater.than', the 'increase:.iti;'^piK;v : yi'£ ■ latioh; In :1885' about: i,000,000 .'personsf in';S'l: S Germany, ivere; insured, and paid. 0,000,000 •marks. ior ! medicar'at-: tendance.ln .1907; more, thnk;.11,000,000 .persons' were insuredagainst vSMcfecss,;;i.ft':£ . and; they ; 'paid 03,000,000, marks .for: medi-.'S?' ■ : cal '.'attention/ ■>' Thus, the average ■'■ income of the German : ; physicidns: decreased'■;from : ;.i'\.Mi i 3008 marks a year in- ISS3 to 2100 marks' a year in 1907.'' Since:lßßs 'the 'relatives ' . v -.', of • the insureds .medical.treatment in ever-incrcasing;num-',\s'r#: bers. 1 . Tho:; insured:; themselves arc "ciahiouringfor, more ; treatment./, I Tho -figures are'taken: to : iridicatb, that, not only, are •' • . . • the Germans growing more sickly-with tho j advance of,, their civilisation and the Ipris- /': f : iS sure .of ;their industrial; development, ,;but-ijSjiS also that they are becoming more fearsome, on tho'. subject'.of their health. Tho . numbcr : of imaginary'complaints has ; in-V ! '?l'i' f J creased; tenfold."' Fortunately rato does not decrease;',' else"'.Germany would ,now be/iiv.ii. period-'of.' incipient;, physical decadence; v.i'-'.r'C. :.V',-v's : :.'J