JAMA Network August 29, 2024
Originally Published September 27, 1924 | JAMA. 1924;83(13):1004.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, in a report on legal education in the United States, offers some interesting statistics based on the census returns of 1920 concerning the supply of physicians, clergymen and lawyers in the United States. According to the census reports, in 1920 there were 164,781 physicians, 168,348 clergymen and 132,590 lawyers. Incidentally, the figures for physicians included 14,774 nondescript healers and 5,030 osteopaths; the figures for clergymen included 14,078 religious and charity workers, and the figures for lawyers included 10,071 judges, justices, magistrates, abstracters, notaries and justices of the...
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