Abstract
According to the Census Bureau estimate for 1917, the population of the United States was 106,543,317, and according to the new American Medical Directory, the total number of physicians is 147,812. At the present time, therefore, there is one physician to every 720 people. In the various countries of Europe, just before the world war began, the proportion of physicians, according to the best available authorities, was from one to every 1,500 to one to every 2,500 people.<sup>1</sup>Numerically speaking, therefore, more than half of the physicians of the United States, or actually 76,783, might be withdrawn from civil practice before the proportion to the population would be as low as the highest proportion in any country of Europe, namely, one to every 1,500 of population. One physician to every 1,500 people could readily supply all the needs in thickly populated communities, but the more sparsely settled rural communities
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