Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming of the U. S. Public Health Service last week deplored the fact that "over 76% of the rural population of the U. S. is as yet unprovided with official local health service which approaches adequacy." Smartly he chided county officials: "As a consequence of this deficiency, there is a sacrifice of the health and lives and material resources of many persons every year, a sacrifice which is needless because preventable, and preventable by measures readily within our means and demonstrated to be in the highest sense economical. The...
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