A Monthly Magazine for the Study of Climatology and the Report of Medical Society News.

POLK'S MEDICAL DIRECTORY, compiled in 1892, contains the names of about 105,000 physicians resident in the United States. This is a ratio of one physician for about six hundred persons the whole country over. In the State of Colorado the same authority gives almost 1,100 physicians for a population slightly in excess of 400,000, or one practitioner for every four hundred people. In the city of Denver I estimate that there is now a population of barely 100,000 people, (others estimate 120,000), whose medical and surgical wants are catered to by about four hundred physicians, a ratio of one physician to about 250 or 300 persons.

That such an excess of medical men should be found in our state, and that such a highly congested profession-as to numbers-should be found in this city, is due to a number of causes, each of which operating singly would cause an overcrowding, but all acting together lead to conditions far worse than simple overcrowding. The natural causes are those that cannot be prevented and are three :

1. There are the physicians who deliberately choose Denver for a permanent location because of its size and business facilities, in the same manner that they would choose any other city. These constitute the natural influx of new physicians to be expected in any vicinity;

There are those who form the drifting uncertain profess