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Publish Date: 1918/06/01
Volume: 70, Issue: 22, Pages: 1600-1601
Abstract
The problems of the standard of living have a bearing on the medical profession in more than one way When the family income is reduced to a dangerously low level the possibility of undernourishment is always present The efficiency of the members is likely to be lowered and sickness is almost certain to become prevalent A vicious circle of successive misfortunes tends to become established With the entrance of disease the already low earning capacities are impaired so that the treatment of the afflicted must be provided and managed through public or private philanthropic agencies The socialization of medicine makes an urgent appeal as the outcome of precisely such circumstances
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