Abstract

The December issue of the Madras Bulletin of Co-operation, contains an interesting article on the necessity for co-operative dis- rensaries' from the pen of Mr. C. N. Krishnaswami Ayyar, M. A., LT., the Secretary of the Coimbatore District Urban Bank. Hisopla is that medical help of the right sort is not within reach of the masses and where it is available it is too costly and he thinks that co-operation can easily set matters right. The author attributes the present slow progress of distributive societies as com- pared to the credit societies to the fact that they do not catch the imagination of people so well as the credit societies and thus pro- poses an attraction to the present distributive societies, popularly known as the stores' in the form of provisions for the sick, and a vendor for the same. Cheap approved medicines are to be stocked and a physician engaged at the most favourable rates to distribute the medicine. He hopes by-this means to kill two birds at a stocked viz., cheap medicine near doors and the encouragement of the Unani and Ayurvedic systems of medicine, as the western school of medicine is out of question on account of cost and non- availability. Such a development the author trusts will strengthen the stores movement considerably, and bring about its rapid spread.

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