This is an important volume for the research worker and for the doctor who is interested in facts.
The lover of statistical tables and of facts without conclusions will have a field-day with this volume. No solution to any health problem is offered nor is there any suggestion of the requirement for additional health resources. What is offered is a convenient tool of research for the appraisal of the health services of the nation.
The average pediatrician will be interested to learn that at the end of 1950 more than a billion dollars was being expended for new hospital facilities in the nation and that of this sum the federal share amounted to 36.8%. He may be startled to learn that in the same year that nearly one-sixth of the population of the nation was included in a group labeled Special Beneficiary Class.