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maintain medical staffs and hospitals to care for their employees. 

 This is especially the case where the town in which the plant 

 is situated is controlled by the lumber company. Employees 

 are charged a certain sum per month for medical attention, 

 averaging $1.25 for married men and 75 cents for single men. 

 The hospital fees are small and cover only the cost of board. 

 The doctors visit the camp at stated intervals and are subject 

 to call at any time for the treatment of persons critically ill or 

 seriously injured. 



The medical staff may be employed by the company on a 

 salary basis, or the doctors may be allowed all fees, except 10 

 per cent retained by the company for collection. 



In some of the western states the loggers' unions make arrange- 

 ments with hospitals for the care of sick or injured members, 

 each of whom by the payment of a monthly fee of 50 or 75 cents 

 becomes eligible for a ticket which insures him medical atten- 

 tion. The hospitals which are located in a number of the 

 larger cities in the Inland Empire and on the Pacific Coast are 

 not controlled by the unions. The medical benefits of the unions 

 do not extend to the camps. 



