Interrelationship of Poverty and Disease

CLEAELY, poverty and disease are bedfel¬ lows, yet the precise relationship of one to the other continues to be unknown.Does pov¬ erty spawn disease?Or are people impov¬ erished because they are sickly?Kimble (7), in his remarkable study on trop¬ ical Africa, has said, "It is bad enough that a man should be ignorant, for this cuts him off from the commerce of other men's minds.It is perhaps worse that a man should be poor, for this condemns him to a life of stint and scheming, in which there is no time for dreams and no respite from weariness.But what surely is worst is that a man should be unwell, for this prevents his doing anything much about either his poverty or his ignorance."This paper examines recent material dealing with poverty and disease, particularly in the United States.And an attempt is made to