Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Jan  ,  1875, 
Statistics  of  the  Drug  Business. 
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Nativities. 
OCCUPATIONS. 
States. 
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Physicians,  ..... 
55)92o 
2,362 
913 
983 
268 
793 
Druggists,  . 
14,273 
1,470 
339 
607 
88 
189 
Patent  Medicine  Manufacturers, 
215 
107 
47 
19 
6 
75 
8 
Perfumers,  .... 
186 
14 
13 
10 
I 
Nurses,  ..... 
8,325 
458 
1,346 
387 
92 
1 70 
Midwives,   .  . 
709 
272 
40 
30 
6 
4 
Nativities — Continued, 
OCCUPATIONS. 
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Physicians,  ..... 
82 
308 
193 
133 
32 
201 
195 
Druggists,   
64 
118 
51 
49 
7 
55 
59 
Patent  Medicine  Manufacturers, 
I 
2 
2 
20 
9 
Perfumers,         .        .        .       .  . 
2 
10 
4 
Nurses,  ...... 
54 
21 
7 
i8 
27 
Midwives,  ...... 
7 
32 
10 
2 
II 
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From  the  first  table,  it  will  be  seen  that  the  physicians  have  increased 
i  n  about  the  same  ratio  as  the  population,  the  variation  being  very  trifling 
for  the  past  twenty  years,  while  the  druggists  have  increased  in  very 
much  greater  proportion  ;  the  ratio  being  for  the  ten  years,  from  1850 
to  i860,  79*7  per  cent.,  while  the  increase  of  population  was  34  per 
cent.  ;  and  for  the  period  from  i860  to  1870,  they  increased  57*4  per 
cent.,  while  the  population  increased  but  23  per  cent.  The  patent 
medicine  manufacturers  heve  increased  at  each  interval  over  100  per 
cent. 
These  figures  are  certainly  very  striking,  and  seem  to  point  plainly  to 
one  reason  of  the  many  complaints  of  an  absence  of  any  profit  in  the 
drug  business,  namely,  a  business  too  much  divided  for  all  to  be  pros- 
perous. R. 
Philadelphiay  December^  1874. 
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