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Title: The Survey April-September 1920
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Survey Associates Charity Organization Society of the City of New York
Subjects: Charities Social problems
Publisher: (East Stroudsburg, Pa., Survey Associates)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: Algoma University, Trent University, Lakehead University, Laurentian University, Nipissing University, Ryerson University and University of Toronto Libraries

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r-world addicts adds enough peddler-trade addicts tobring the proportion of diseased and aged people down toone-third of the whole. Ignorant physicians report as dis-eased many addicts who present no pathology except that ofaddiction, and this factor reduces the proportion of actuallydiseased and aged people to about one-fourth of the wholenumber of addicts. There is a tremendous incidence of cancer, advanced tuber-culosis, inoperable surgical conditions, post-operative lesions,neglected cases of syphilis with aggravated tertiary symptoms,untreated bladder and prostatic cases, neglected dental lesions,old focal infections, aggravated cases of rheumatoid arthritis,cardiac dyspnea, chronic asthma, gall-stone disease, and pain-ful undiagnosed lesions largely neural or deeply visceral; andit is often imperatively necessary that these persons be sup-plied narcotics, often in ascending dosage. Add to this theinfirmities of age, often in persons who have taken narcotics(Continued on page 54)
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THE FIRST BOOKS TO ARRIVE AT THE HOMESTEAD LIBRARY Under the Orange Sign The Spirited Story of the County Library Service in Santa Barbara By Rebecca N. Porter A library as near every home in the country as thepublic school. THIS is the slogan of the California county service,and in two instances in Santa Barbara county thelibrary arrived first. The county library is not a neworganization. Single counties scattered here andthere over the country, such as Washington county, Maryland,with its wagon- (or is it now auto- ?) load of books, have donesplendid work. But, entering this field of service in 1909,California has the distinction of making a state-wide use ofthe county as a library unit. The obstacles conspiring against such a record are chieflythose which may be termed natural barriers, of which meredistance is reckoned the least. An obstacle far more difficultto surmount is the matter of topography. Some of Californiascounties are divided by precipitous mountain ranges whichnecess

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