Rural Needs 71 



more or less effective effort when communi- 

 cable diseases break out; and the supervision 

 even then is usually more in the interest of the 

 city than of the country. We are much in need 

 of health supervision directly from the country 

 point of view. The lack of attention to health 

 regulations is little less than appalling in its 

 consequences. The physicians in the farming 

 country are general practitioners, commonly 

 out of close touch with specialists and experts. 

 It is pitiable that so many of the good country 

 population are lost from neglect, and anti- 

 quated treatment of disease. I have no means 

 of knowing whether the country suffers more 

 than the city in this particular regard ; but well 

 enforced sanitary regulations are powerful 

 educators, and the country does not have the 

 benefit of them to the same extent that the 

 city has. 



(3) Need of the cooperative spirit in business. 

 The development of our rural country has pro- 

 ceeded mostly on the basis of isolated occu- 

 pancy of land, with the strong individualism 

 that goes with it. Definite cooperation has not 



