1 s b ' a Y 7, 1933 'T HE MICHGA1N D A I LY _ ..M._ __ ,, _ .. -..-- State Medical Society Shows That 17 Counties In Michigan Are Without ASingle Hospital Editor's Note: This is the fifth of a scries of articles written for the newspapers of the state by Wesley I1. Maurer of the De- partment of Journalism concern ng a survey of medical services and health agencies made by a g-oup of physicians for the Michi- gan State Medical Society. The committee is comprised of: Wr. W. H. Marshall, Flint; Dr. F. C. Warnshuis, Grand Rapids; Dr. L. G. Christian, Lansing; Dr. Bert U. Estabrook, Detroit; Dr. C. S.- Gorsijne, Battle Creek; and Dr. 1. A. Baker, Pontiac. Dr. Nathan Sinai, professor of public health at the University, served as direc- tor for the study. By WESLEY H. MAURER Seventeen counties in Michigan are without a single registered hos- pital. Separation Ends Famons Film Romance Of Doug And Mary .ip Intramural golf To urnament To' BeginJuly 11 Final play-off in the all-campus, Summer Session golf tourament will start Tuesday, July 11, accordinI to an anouncement issued yesterday by the Intramural Department. Qualifying rounds are now in prog- ress and will close July 10, the an- nouncement stated. More than 40 students have entered the tourna- ment and entries may still be listed at the club house on the course. Final play will include one championship Right to determine the winner of the annual summer event. Extensive programs including in- dividual competition in tennis, hand- ball, and .swimming, will also be in- cluded in the summer program of- fered by the department. A second baseball series, for members of the Summer Session faculty, will be started in the near future to follow the Education, School series which is now in progress. '. t i i ~_ Y { '' 'i 1 Inhabitants in forty counties of the state live outside a radius of twentyI miles from a hospital. Michigan has less than half the number of hospital beds for tubercular patients required for good medical care. Although one bed to every 179 persons is required, the state has one bed for every 281 persons for mental and nervous disorders. These are the facts brought out in a survey made by a committee of the Michigan State Medical Society, to be submitted to the society in its annual convention, July 12, at Lansing, which led the committee to con- clude that "there is need for regional >----- planning in the location and develop- both governmental and non-govern- ment of hospitals." ' mental hospitals." The 233 hospitals in the State of Largely Governmental Function Michigan, exclusive of the Federal That hospitalization in Michigan hospitals, provide a total of 42,041 is largely a governmental function is beds, 21,497 of which are in general clearly shown in the survey. About and special hospitals, 17,453 of which' 96 per cent .of all the hospital beds are in hospitals for mental and ncr- for mental and nervous disorders are vous disorders, and 3,091 of which owned by local, county, or state gov- are for tubercular patients. ernments, and 83 per cent of the tu- berculosis hospital beds are govern- For the state as a whole, the ratio menit-owned. Not only this, but 54 of beds to population is one to every per:cent of the general and special 240 persons, which is better than the hospital beds are owned by the gov- average for the territory comprising ernmental units. Of the three sour- 25,000,000 persons in Ohio, Indiana, ces of incomes for all hospitals-tax Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan, funds, charity and endowments, and and very near the requirements for receipts from private patients-the good medical care, one bed to every first far outweighs the others. 216 persons. But the averages hide Data dealing with hospital income the fact that seventeen counties in and costs per patient day are of lit- the state are without registered hos- tle value, the committee concludes, pita facilities. These are: Alger and except to show that there is "pres- Mackinac in the upper peninsula; sing need for the adoption of some, Cheboygan, Antrim, Otsego, Mont- standards of accounting by hospital gomery, Leelanau, Benzie, Kalkaska, administrators." From the reports Oscoda, Missaukee, Roscommon, Ios- the committee received, it is esti- co, Lake, Clare, Gladwin, and Mid- mated that the cost per patient day land in the upper half of the lower is, on the average, $5.35. The aver- peninsula. Nine counties are really age cost ranges from $5.80 per day responsible for the low average for for the upper peninsula to $3.43 a the state as a whole. These are: Del- day in the upper half of the lower ta, Gogebic, Marquette, Emmet, Cal- peninsula. houn, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Washte- So great has become the influence naw and Wayne. The remaining 74 of the hospital, declares the commit- counties all have more than 250 per- tee in its report, that often the de- sons for each hospital bed. ciding factor in the location of a Washtenaw Best Equipped physician is its presence or absence The figures for counties range all in a community. In a real sense the the way from one bed for every 48 hospital is a public utility and it is persons in Washtenaw County, seat apparent that more and more this is of the University Hospital with 1,280 becoming the attitude of the public.{ beds, and one bed to every 67 per- One of the important questions sons in. Calhoun County to one bed facing the various medical societiesI to every 2,740 persons in Sanilac in the. state is concerned with the' County. This, of course, excludes the operation of the University Hospital. counties where there are no register- The conclusions of the committee ed hospitals. pertaining to this problem will be Nor are the hospitals in the state discussed in the succeeding article used to their fiull cani1-t a dP~n- iof this series. I of this series. Half-Price License Plate Sale Will Start Aug. -Associated Press Photo Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, for many years regarded as Hollywood's happiest married couple, have reached the endto of their rom'nance. In a brief statement Miss Pickford aAnounced that a separation and possibly a divorce is contemplated. Here are glimp- ses of them together and in film roles which contributed to their fame. 1 LANSING, July 6. - The ' half- price salefof 1933 license plates will start August .1, it was announced by Secretary.,ofd State (Frank {D: Fitz- gerald following the governor'side- cision to veto the Raymond 'bil' which provided for four different li- cense plate prices, according to time of purchase. Defects in the bill in not properly specifying the times when plates should be sold at half and at quarter prices were one of the reasons given for the veto. Work Is Under' Way At Camp Fili -t Roth MUNISING, July 16.-(Special)- Work at Camp Filibert Roth, head- quarters here of the University of Michigan field division in forestry, is well under way now with students enrolled in three courses of study under the direction of Prof. Robert Craig. All the students now at the camp have previously completed two years of pre-forestry training as prescribed by the School of Forestry and Con- servation. Besides Professor Craig, Prof. L. J. Young and Ralph R. Wil- son, who graduated from the Univer- sity this year, comprise the teaching staff. Those who are enrolled in the be- ginning course are now doing field work in the measurement of logs, trees, and whole stands of timber. Considerable time is being spent in forest mapping and gathering infor- mation for the preparation of forest working plans. Work in the forest fire prevention' course has been going forward also. Students have been doing field work in the causes of forest fires and methods used to prevent them, as well as the means of detection and methods of suppressing fires. . Those working in the forest im- provements course have been getting practice in planning and construct- ing telephone lines, lookout towers, roads, and trails, and making com- prehensive improvement plans for large forest areas which can only be completed over a period of years. Work in the identification of native trees and shrubs is going forward as well. The location of the camp in Alger County, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, makes it possible for the students to see forestry as carried on by the Federal government and the State Conservation Commission. Log- ging operations are within easy reach, as are also lumber mills, a paper mill, and other wood-using in- dustries. Possible Problem For Clergy Is Seen By Dr. Walton Cole By EDGAR H. ECKERT Crushed public morale will be the greatest problem ever faced by lib- eral clergymen should the Roosevelt recovery program fail, according to an opinion expressed by Dr. Walton Cole, summer pastor of the Unitarian Church, in an interview. "One fear of liberal pastors," Dr. Cole said, "is that changes made by President Roosevelt will either be not far reaching or will come too late to be effective." Dr. Cole stressed the fact that he greatly admires the President, and that he feels that the program is a step in the right direction. However in his opinion liberal leaders must be prepared for a reaction against the present popular liberal senti- ments in the event that the recovery plan does not restore the nation to a state of normalcy. In elaborating this point Dr. Cole referred to a statement recently made by Dr. John Haynes Holmes, noted liberal pastor of New York, who said: "It may be the duty of liberal min- isters to restore the broken public morale after the failure of the Roosevelt 'new deal.' " Brings Repetition Of History Contrasting the present popular spirit of liberalism with that which prevailed during the muck-raking era which culminated in the famous Bull Moose campaign of Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, Dr. Cole said, "a short time after the real recovery from a period of economic unrest such as we have recently been through history repeats itself and social reformers settle into the com- placency of restored prosperity. But in an era of reform like that of 1912, which was not produced by abnormal economic unrest the results are likely to be of more permanent effect." College Student Conservative Placing the responsibility for the failure of current liberalism to be permanent in influence squarely at the door of our educational system, Cole stated, "Our educational system has not prepared young people to be socially minded. From kindergarten to the university there is no attempt to arouse interest on the part of stu- dents in social problems." Dr. Cole emphasized the fact that the college student is conservative. He is not, according to Dr. Cole, the radical that magazines and news- papers describe for the benefit of an imaginative public. Stone Carver Finds earned 25 cents a weekindthesold ;ountry, learning his trade as a His Art Appreciated stone carver. He is doing much bet- ter in this country and newspapers MARION-Sam Tjalama, native of have brought him business from as the Netherlands, living near here,far away as Oklahoma. h ON SALE TOD- uacu~~ ~ u I 1 l Uj4jy, eSp1j e the lack of facilities, the committee found, which is further evidence of the gap between the demand for medical care and the need of it. The average occupancy rate for gov- ernment-owned (local, county, and state) hospitals in 1931 was 67.4 of their capacity and of non-govern- ment-owned (private, charity, en- dowed) hospitals was 60.3 per cent of their capacity. This, the committee believes, ex- plains both the deficits of hospitals and the high cost of hospital service. "Hospitals operate," declares the committee, "under certain fixed costs designated as 'readiness to serve' cost. The fixed costs per patient day decrease as the occupancy rate increases until a rate of approximate- ly 80 per cent is reached. Therefore a hospital with an occupancy rate appreciably lower than 80 per cent falls short of a full realization upon these fixed costs. The only recourse of the hospital is either to spread the fixed costs over the smaller number of patients, thereby balancing the budget, or to adopt some device for increasing the number of patients using the hospital services. The magnitude of the problem facing the hospitals may be more fully appre- ciated when it is realized that the occupancy rates for counties include Education Sorority Hold Initial Summer Meetii Is rg Xi chapter of Pi Lambda Theta, education sorority, held its organiza- tion tea Wednesday afternoon in the library of the elementary school. The following officers were elected to head the organization for the cur- rent season: Gertrude Layton, Ann Arbor, president; Lewelta Pogue, Newcastle, Ind., vice-president; Mar- guerite Hall, Ann Arbor, secretary- treasurer; Barbara Andrews, Three Rivers, corresponding secretary. Plans for a supper meeting to be held at 6 p. m. on July 12 at Dr. Katherine Green's residence were also made. Invitations have been is- sued to alltmembers, including those belonging to the Ann Arbor chapter and transfer members. Squeaky Motor Cars Annoy Paris Police To make Paris, France, "the noise- less city, at least as noiseless as possible," the police have prosecuted no fewer than 8,216 persons within the last six months.' Of this number 3,956 persons were prosecuted for having squeaky cars. Exactly 1,188 - persons were arrested for honk- ing their automobile horns too as- sidously during the daytime, and 1,- 460 at night. For first offenders, mild fines or a reprimand are the only punishment but if they persist, the fines increase in size. Greek farmers can have their land plowed by the government at a fixed charge, per acre. i Beer +: Wines .:o Food Sandwiches and Soft Drinks Spend your afternoons and evenings in this cool and. refreshing restaurant i. 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