Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 February 1941 — Page 30

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RELIEF SYSTEMS VARY

‘Study of State Townships Reveals Difference. in Care and Costs.

A’ wide variation in township medical relief methods and costs

was reported by the Unemployment” Relief Commission today in’

its first State-wide survey of the set-up. While medical care was available in all townships, dental care is not and maternal and child health service is provided by only onethird of the townships, the survey showed. ; The survey, which took more than a year, will be presented to the Indiana Trustees’ Association, the State Medical Association and legislators, Dudley A. Smith, Unemployment Relief Commission director, said. Fourth of Relief Cost

Constituting 27 per cent of total relief expenditures last year, medical care cost the townships a total

of- $1,974,435. This was a drop of nearly $300,000 from the previous year, reflecting a general drop in relief expenditures. ‘Townships use three different arrangements in paying physicians. There is the fee system in which purchase orders are written by the trustee for each case and two contractual systems. Under one central type, the township pays/ a specified sum each month to a physician or group of physicians who, in turn, perform all medical services for indigents. The other provides for the payment of a specified amount per relief case whether the case receives medical care or not. Some fownships use a combination of the three systems and payment is by law based on “fair pay” for services.

Wide Range of Rates

There is a wide range of rates for medical service. The average is. $1 to $149 for office calls with drugs, $2 to $2.49 for home calls with drugs and. a mileage charge. In 434 townships, the "mileage charge ranges from $1 per mile down to less than a nickel. Some townships pay full distance mileage while others pay only for one way. Surgery rates also vary. The average for appendectomy and other major operations was $50 to $59; while minor operations ran from $15 to $29. In obstetric cases, the rates ranged from $7 to $50, with the gverage-abey DAD. S For dental service,~the trustees paid $1 to $1.49 for extraction and simple filling. Full, and partial plates cost between $20 and $24 and . $10 and $14, respectively. Hgher for Small Loads The medical rate was higher than average in smaller townships with, | small loads. In 14 townships, the rate was $5 a home call and $8 in . two townships, The highest rate for office calls was $3 in three townships while the lowest rate was 50 cents in 41 townships. Dental rates ranged from 50 cents to $3 for simple fillings. Only a fraction of the townships reported Payments for plates and other dentures. T The survey also shows adequate hospital facilities in 629 townships. Twenty-five townships reported that hospital facilities were inadequate for their clients, Only one-third of the townships have facilities for maternal and (child health. education for relief families. Periodic examination for . crippled children is provided in onesixth of the counties, : medical care was available in all townships, dental care was

not given in the town small case loads. Shins with

Animals Suffer During Air Raids

- BERLIN, Feb. 7 (U. P.) —Ai ‘ralds are hard on oat study made at the Hagenback Zoo in Hamburg showed today. An article in the newspaper ‘Zwoelfuhr Blatt reported = that the erangutangs and chimpanzees become particularly panicky, screeching and fleeing to the farthest corners of their cages as soon as the sirens sound. The tropical birds and kangae roos were said to show no reac= tion which was explained by the theory that they regard the gun flashes as lightning and the explosions as thunder. . The bears registered changes ‘in temperature during raids. Some remained quiet, but ‘others became excited. One mother polar bear bit her cubs to death. ; Ihe sea lions plunged into their pools apparently believin were safest Tors, B dhey

ppt W. EARL SCALES DIES

BOONVILLE, Ind., Feb. 7 (U.P) —W. Earl Scales, 53, Newburgh, examiner for the State Department of Financial Institutions and Democratic chairman of Warrick County, died in an Evansville ‘hospital late yesterday of pneumonia,

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—To hundreds of people throughout the U. S., 42-year-old Mrs. Rose McMullin of Washington is a symbol of mercy. . In the past 12 months| she has traveled 29,000 miles, by plane and rail and car, to give 53,093 cubic centimeters of ‘her life-blood—53 quarts—in 256 transfusions, All she has charged were expenses.

In 1935 Mrs, ;McMullin’s niece,

then four, was dying of a staphylocolcus infection resulting from ga Fourth of July burn. Only chance for her recovery lay in discovering someone who had recovered from the same infection. No one could be found. i x So Mrs. McMullin herself submitted to. inoculation with the germs. She almost died. But once recovered, she was immune and alkile to give her little niece life-

saving transfusions.

Appéals for aid have come to her by the tHousantls, They come from all over the country. As many as she could, she has heeded. Doctors seldom permit a blood donor to submit to more than a single transfusion every six weeks

—after all, the human: body- holds only about five or six quarts of blood. But during 1940 the remarkable Mrs. McMullin averaged

a’ transfusion every day and a half.

ES : “HOSPITAL HEADS TO MEET, HERE The four Methodist Hospitals in Indiana will. hold their annual meeting Tuesday in the nurses’ home of the Indianapolis hospital. Officers will be elected. ; The meeting will be followed by a luncheon at which members of the advisory council of the medical staff and the executive ‘board of the White Cross Guild will be guests. | Annual reports “will be’ made by oar

the su, tendents, D?.. John Benson, ¢f‘ Inaianapolis; Blake . Jr./ of Gary; Mrs. Dorothy King, of Princeton, and

Garrigus Dr. E. T. Franklin, of Ft. Wayne.

Buys Home With

» 4 . Relief Checks DETROIT, Feb. 7 ( Judge ‘'W. McKay Skillman; has decided that if a relief cl his rent allotment to purchase a house he is innocent of: obtaining

money’ under false pretenses from the city.

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The case involved Vincent - Szpara“ who in: 1936 borrowed $200

from a pelative for & down: pay-

ment: and thereafter used his $18 purchase until.

rent check toward

all but $40 was paid.

CURRIE GIVES CHIANG] |LETTER FROM F. D. R.

*CHUNGKING, China, Feb. 7 :(U. P.).—Laughlin . Currie, administrative assistant ‘to "President Roosevelt, conferred with Gen ( Chiang Kai-Shek ‘today, ‘delivering a personal letter from the President. Mr. Currie had arrived by

plane, accompanied by Emile Des-

pres, senior economist of the Division of Research and Statistics, Federal Reserve Board. He'is on a special mission for the President: which he said at Hongkong yesteraay would take about: three weeks. After the audience ‘with Chiang, Mr. Currie paid a sit“ to

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