The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-23
ORIGIN OF MOVEMENT.

I. The proposal to establish a Ma tional Department or Bureau of Health was made in a letter to President Roosevelt from Professor Irving Fisher of Yale university under date of May 12, 1906, This was followed by visit to President Roosevelt by Professor Fisher on May 19 1906 President Roosevelt expressed desire that such a movement, before he could take any part in 1t, should first be support ed by real demand on the part of the public.
 At Ithaca, on June 30, 1906 Profess sor J. P. Norton of Yale university, read paper before the economic sec tion of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, entitled s'The Economic Advsability of Inau- gurating a National Department of Health" A copy of this paper, as af- forwards reprinted in the Journal of the American Medical association, Is attached below.
 Professor Norton planned his paper without any knowledge that Professor Fisher had interested himself in the same object. It appears that the plan for National Office of Health has been suggested independently to the minds of a larger number of persons, as natural consequence of the condi- ticns demanding it. It is definitely advocated by Dr. Hubert Higgins (of Wenice) in his "Humaniculture, by Dr. Rockwell, in the Popular Science Monthly, and has for some years been advocated by the American Medical Health association, and various con- gressmen and senators.
 Professor Nortons paper was dis cussed by a distinguished body of economists and hygienists, including Dr. Welch, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, who attended the sectional meeting for that express purpose Af- ter the discussion 1t was unanimously voted that the chairman should ap- point committee to keep alive the subject of Professor Nortons paper This vote resulted in the "committee of one hundred" As originally consti- tuted, it included fourteen federal of- ficials engaged in administering the present health work of the government among different executive departments In January, 1907, Secretary Taft brought up the question in cabinet meeting, as to whether these persons ought to remain on a committee the purpose of which was to advocate leg isiation by congress. As a result, Pres ident Roosevelt directed that the four teen persons mentioned should with. draw from the committee of one hun. dred Their places were afterwards filed. A list of the committee as it present constituted follows below.
 On April IS, 19O7 the committee ol one hundred met for organization ir New York, and elected the following officers:
 President-Prof. Irving Fisher.
 Vice-Presidents-M Jane Adams Hull House, Chicago; Felix Adler, pres. ident Ethical Culture association, New York President James Angel, Univer slty of Michigan; Hon. Joseph H Choate, formerly ambassador to Eng land; President Charles w. Eliot, liar ward university; President G. Stanley Hall, Clark university; Hon. Ben. B Lindsey, Juvenile Court, Denver; Hon John D. Long, ex-Secretary of Navy ex-Governor of Massachusetts; Dr William H. Welch, president American Association for Advancement of Sci ence; Andrew Carnegie, of New York Archbishop Ireland, of Minnesota.
 Secretary-Mr. Champe s. Andrews
 PRECEDENTS.
 II. A general review of federal activ