Image from page 34 of "The Survey April-September 1918" (1918)
Identifier: surveyaprsep1918surv
Title: The Survey April-September 1918
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Survey Associates Charity Organization Society of the City of New York
Subjects: Charities Social problems
Publisher: [East Stroudsburg, Pa., Survey Associates]
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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s of hospital service; there would be245,000 operations at each; therewould be 44,100,000 physicians visits;2,945,000 people would get worthof dental attention, each; and the totalcost of one year of health insurancewould be 6,891,000. Who pays for all this now? some-one asked as Mr. Daly completed thereading. Why, I suppose a good dealof it is paid for by the state, repliedMr. Daly, and a good deal of it bythe workers themselves. When James M. Lynch rose to replyto the opposition, he said that if 20,000more trained nurses, 5,000 more den-tists, and 0,000,000 more in hospi-tals would be required to take care ofthe sick people of the state, as allegedby the pamphlet, nothing could be moreconvincing evidence of the need ofhealth insurance. He would accept thefigures if they were well-founded, andhoped that the state would proceed atonce to provide this necessary equip-ment. William G. Curtis, president ofthe Insurance Economic Society ofAmerica, which compiled the pamphlet,
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The Spirit of War Service Alone in the midst of warsdesolation, the telephone line-man crawls to mend the brokenwires. On all sides the thunder ofartillery; in the air burstingshrapnel. He faces danger with thatunconquerable spirit of warservice which permits him tothink only of maintaining thetelephone connections. The safety of the troops de-pends on these lines of commu-nication, often used for the sen-tries warnings, the carrying of official commands and the sum-moning of reinforcements. In a dark hole hidden amongsparse brushwood are the tele-phone operators, some of whomhave been for months in theirdamp cave ceaselessly swept byshells. And they are admirable, allthese heroes of the Signal Corps,whether serving in darkness orin the all too bright light of day. The spirit of war service, overhere as well as over there, fur-nishes the nerves, the endur-ance, the morale—the stuff thatwins war.
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