31 AUGUST 1934, Page 20

THE DEPRESSION AND THE DOCTORS

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—After reading your story of the undertaker in the July 27th issue of The Spectator, I think you may be interested in the following one, which is also authenticated.

A celebrated New York physician, with a very large practice was asked how it had been affected by the depression. He replied that his patients fell into three classes—the neur- asthenic who now-a-days get on as best they can without medical help—the moderately ill, who still call in a doctor, but do not pay him—and the desperately ill, who throw them, selves out of the window.—I am, Sir, &c., Mountain View House, B. DEAN. Whitefield, New Hampshire.