1910

[Pete McCluskey.]

Ford 1910

Make sure you read all the statistics under the photo.​

This has only been 103 years ago...Amazing!!!​

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Show this to your friends, children and/or grandchildren!​

The year is 1910, over one hundred years ago.​

What a difference a century makes!​

Here are some statistics for the Year 1910:​

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The average life expectancy for men was 47 years.​

Fuel for this car was sold in drug stores only.​

Only 14 percent of the homes had a bathtub.​

Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.​

There were only 8,000 cars and only 144 miles of paved roads.​

The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.​

The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower !​

The average US wage in 1910 was 22 cents per hour.​

The average US worker made between $200​

and $400 per year.​

A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year,​

a dentist $2,500 per year, a veterinarian​

between $1,500 and $4,000 per year,​

and a mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year.​

More than 95 percent of all births took place at HOME.​

Ninety percent of all Doctors had NO COLLEGE EDUCATION!​

Instead, they attended so-called medical schools,​

many of which were condemned in the press​

AND the government as 'substandard.'​

Sugar cost four cents a pound.​

Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen.​

Coffee was fifteen cents a pound.​

Most women only washed their hair once a month​

, and used Borax or egg yolks for shampoo.​

There was no such thing as under arm​

deodorant or tooth paste.​

Canada passed a law that prohibited poor​

people from entering into their country for any reason.​

The five leading causes of death were:​

1. Pneumonia and influenza​

2, Tuberculosis​

3. Diarrhea​

4. Heart disease​

5. Stroke​

The American flag had 45 stars.​

The population of Las Vegas Nevada was only 30!​

Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and​

iced tea hadn't been invented yet​

There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.​

Two out of every 10 adults couldn't read or​

write and only 6 percent of all Americans​

had graduated from high school.​

Eighteen percent of households had at​

least one full-time servant or domestic help.​

There were about 230 reported​

murders in the ENTIRE U.S.A. !​

I am now going to forward this​

to someone else without typing it myself.​

From there, it will be sent to others​

all over the WORLD...all in a matter of seconds!​

Try to imagine what it may be like in another 100 years.​

 

[Jim Rosenthal]

Very true. Shortly after 1910, an American researcher (not a physician, I believe) named Abraham Flexner surveyed all the medical schools (so called) in America and issued a report recommending the closure of most of them; most were diploma mills which graduated "physicians" with little or no training or knowledge, even by the standards of the day. He recommended that all the medical schools which were to remain open adopt the instruction and training model of the (relatively new) medical school at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, MD, which at that time was thought to be the most modern and arguably the best in the country.

By forcing medical education up to a consistent and modern standard, Flexner probably saved more lives than all of the physicians of the day put together. His name is not known to many, literally a century later, but he deserves much of the credit for the excellent system of medical education we have in the USA.

 

[Doug S.]

Cool, Jimbo...glad to see you showing pride in your profession :thumbsup:

Now, go to work and pay tribute to your nurses...it's nurse's week, you know!

Cheers to those who practice "Do no harm"!!

Doug

 

[Pete McCluskey.]

When I was in the Army we always invited the local nurses to the mess dances.
Ahhh, the memories.

 

[Randy V]

Very interesting actually...

Missing are references to air, sea and rail transportation - but they were equally archaic at that time.

And to think to that point, the only war that the United States had been involved in to that point was its own Civil War and a few skirmishes with native Americans in an almost genocide mindset..