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Street and highway accidents in 1948
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over $200. In forty-three schools the amount is less than $100 per student and in twenty-seven over $100. In five schools it is less than $10 per student per year, and in four, over $400. The question that arises is why should there be such violent opposition on the part of some to Federal aid for undergraduate education when there is seemingly no opposition to the Federal government allotting about twenty rail]ion dollars this fiscal year to the teaching institutions for graduate and postgraduate education. It has nothing to do with the controversial subject of medical socialization, but is purely concerned with ways and means of improving medical care, which, in the final analysis, depends upon medical education. In much of the rather emotional discussion of medical care and economics which has taken place in recent months, the fact that good medical care is more dependent on the education and skill of the doctor than on the way in which he is renumerated for his services has been completely ignored by many taking part in the discussion. The one and one-half million dollars recently allotted for undergraduate teaching in psychiatry went to only forty-two of the seventy medical schools. The basis of selection was where it was most needed and where it would do the most good. A similar sum for undergraduate pediatric teaching, divided among the schools which the survey has shown have inadequate budgets for good pediatric teaching, would be a sound investment for the children of the nation. B. S. V.
S T R E E T AND H I G H W A Y ACCIDENTS IN 1948 E were 32,200 persons killed on the streets and highways in 1948. This T isH Ea Rdecrease of 300 under 1947 but the number of nonfatal injuries reported jumped from 1,365,000 to 1,471,000. Of the 22,700 deaths resultin~ . from the actions of drivers, 10,080 (44.4 per cent) were attributed to speeding. Of the deaths, 3,530 were in children under 14 years of age, a decrease of nearly 500 under 1947. Of the fatal accidents, 85.5 per cent occurred when the weather was clear, and 78.7 per cent when the roads were dry. Over one-fourth of the fatal accidents occurred in the ]ate afternoon and early evening hours, 4 to 8 P.M. Saturday and Sunday were as usual the days with the highest rates and account for approximately 40 per cent of the total number of persons killed.
T H E J O U R N A L OF PEDIATRICS
over $200. In forty-three schools the amount is less than $100 per student and in twenty-seven over $100. In five schools it is less than $10 per student per year, and in four, over $400. The question that arises is why should there be such violent opposition on the part of some to Federal aid for undergraduate education when there is seemingly no opposition to the Federal government allotting about twenty rail]ion dollars this fiscal year to the teaching institutions for graduate and postgraduate education. It has nothing to do with the controversial subject of medical socialization, but is purely concerned with ways and means of improving medical care, which, in the final analysis, depends upon medical education. In much of the rather emotional discussion of medical care and economics which has taken place in recent months, the fact that good medical care is more dependent on the education and skill of the doctor than on the way in which he is renumerated for his services has been completely ignored by many taking part in the discussion. The one and one-half million dollars recently allotted for undergraduate teaching in psychiatry went to only forty-two of the seventy medical schools. The basis of selection was where it was most needed and where it would do the most good. A similar sum for undergraduate pediatric teaching, divided among the schools which the survey has shown have inadequate budgets for good pediatric teaching, would be a sound investment for the children of the nation. B. S. V.
S T R E E T AND H I G H W A Y ACCIDENTS IN 1948 E were 32,200 persons killed on the streets and highways in 1948. This T isH Ea Rdecrease of 300 under 1947 but the number of nonfatal injuries reported jumped from 1,365,000 to 1,471,000. Of the 22,700 deaths resultin~ . from the actions of drivers, 10,080 (44.4 per cent) were attributed to speeding. Of the deaths, 3,530 were in children under 14 years of age, a decrease of nearly 500 under 1947. Of the fatal accidents, 85.5 per cent occurred when the weather was clear, and 78.7 per cent when the roads were dry. Over one-fourth of the fatal accidents occurred in the ]ate afternoon and early evening hours, 4 to 8 P.M. Saturday and Sunday were as usual the days with the highest rates and account for approximately 40 per cent of the total number of persons killed.