TABLE 3.

Income and Medical Care—Per Cent of Total Illnesses Receiving Medical, Hospital, and Nursing Services Related to 1932 Family Income per Capita, in Canvassed White Families in Baltimore, Birmingham, Cleveland, Detroit, New York, Pittsburgh, and Syracuse¹

	Per Cent of Illnesses Receiving Specified Service
Service in Specified per Capita Income Groups2	Total Care	Pay Care	Free Care
Physician
Poor	50.2	18.8	31.4
Moderate	51.4	34.3	17.1
Comfortable	58.0	45.9	12.1
Hospital, all cases
Poor	9.5	1.3	8.2
Moderate	7.8	2.8	5.0
Comfortable	6.9	3.4	3.5
Hospital, excl. of cases hospitalized 90 days
Poor	8.4	1.2	7.2
Moderate	6.8	2.8	4.0
Comfortable	6.0	3.3	2.7
Visiting nurse
Poor	5.6	0.1	5.5
Moderate	2.8	0.1	2.7
Comfortable	1.2	0.2	1.0

¹The illness and population figures on which Tables 3 and 4 are based are as follows:

²Poor—under $150 per capita per year.

Moderate—$150–$424 per capita per year.

Comfortable—$425 and over per capita per year.