a UNCLASSIFIED 4liness ensues with concomitant loss of working manpover to the paboratory In addition, this service fulfills another need in the atively low paid workers who heve no hospitalization in- surance and who refuse to go to the hospital for what they consider ainor illnesses. This group is largely represented by the Spanish- speaking laboring class. By providing simple treatuent for mincr ills jt has been possible to keep them working with « concomitant gain to themselves and in man hours worked by the University and by other organisations assisting the University. In instances where serious ‘tiness ie present in this group of people we have, with the cooperas tien of the hospital, often been able to arrange for them to have excellent care at the hospital at considerably lower rates. In cena these dispensaries do not represent campetition to the hospital but rather act as a clearing house from which many cases are directed to the hospitel which would not ordinarily accrue to thea. Perhaps seme idea of the value to the Laboratory of these dispensaries and of their service to the Laboratory employees may be seen in the first graph (Figure I), the upper portion of which shows the increase in the number of total dispensary visite by six month intervals fram January, 1948, to January, 1951. The bottom portion of the graph shows the total visits per year to all dispensaries over the same periad of time. It is to be noted in 1% there were over 4X0 visits; in 1949, ower 7100 visits; and in the year just passed, over 14,000 visits. Figure II shows the increase in dispensary visits - 29 - UNCLASSIFIED 0130915 03! 1O¥u4bd LANL