New-York tribune., 1901-06-05
TO SAVE PUBLICS HEALTH
A COMMITTEE OF PHYSICIANS SEEKING
SOME OF THE CAUSES OF THE
PEOPLES ILLS

All the physicians in this city have been asked
to help in the work of the special committee ap-
pointed by the Medical Society Of the County OF
~ev--York to learn what effect certain forms OF
v-ickedness existing here have upon the public
health and what legislation is needed to I'M
prove conditions This committee was appoint
ed in February. and so vigorously has ii labored
that it has attracted widespread attention.
II will first submit report of its work to the
society. and the organization viii then lay IL
before the Committee of Fifteen When this re-
mort will he ready is still problematicaL IL ~
certain that the report will be one of the best
of its kind ever placed before medical orsani-
zation, as it will not only contain the express
sions of opinion of the members OF the special
committee of the society on matters OF great
import to the public health. but the views on the
same subjects of hundreds of medical men OF
this city Not within the memory Of many OF
tbe Oldest living citizens has the medical profes-
sion been so aroused to the Importance of the
task that it has undertaken and has set out.
practically as a whole. TO help solve some
Of the leading problem relating TO the public
health of the community Some reports on mat
1ers similar to those in which the committee OF
the society and the physicians Of this city are
now interested are TO he found in the archives
of the leading medical libraries throughout the
u,orld and nearly all these papers. when they
We're directly interested in their contents
" is axpected that the report the committees
win submit will be exception 10 previous
similar reports and that it may quicken the
nubIic mind to the sense of its duty relating 70
MANY evils existing in this city, especially IN
such districts as the red light
There are hundreds Of physicians mere VINO
think that the people should be warned OF the
nature of the dangers threatening the public
health by which the health Of many persons has
haen impaired. So far. the committee has re-
ceived the views of more than $40 physicians on
the question to which replies were sought. and
has learned from these physicians the status OF
the public health in certain parts or the city
This is only the beginning of the work OF the
committee of the society. In speaking about
their work yesterday. we'll known physician
said 10 a Tribune reporter: The committee has
beeln it's work auspciOUsly; it will end IL aus
niciousIv Never was there better time for
sucb work as IL is doing" DR.. Prince A Nor.
row is chairman of the committee, and DR.. Lu6-
wig Weiss secretary. Dr. George B. Fowler Ia
an ex-officfo member OF the committee.
count of being the president of the society. The
other members are: Drs Charles w Allen l.
Duncan Bulk,ey, Henry Dwight Chaplin, Ed
ward D. Fisher and 5. Adolph knopf. The COM
mittee recently mailed a circular 70 every regis
tered physician in this city The circular out
lined the work OF the committee, and asked that
the receiver of the circular answer the questions
to the best of his knowledge and mail a reply
possible