Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-25
WYMAN ON PUBLIC HEALTH
COMMON SENSE IN SANITATION
CURE FOR DISEASE.
Surgeon General In Lecture De-
scribes Work Of the Marine
Hospital Service.

1T requires only common sense in sani-
tation. better living. the inspection OF
food and like measures said Surgeon
General Walter Wyman at the University
Club last night. Ito stamp out much of
the disease of the world and bring health
and happiness In its stead"
For nearly an hour and a half DR.. Wy
man held the close attention Of large
audience of the club members and their
friends with his lecture entitled Public
Health Service in which he told Of the
origin of the marine hospital service and
its gradual evolution into what is now
known as the public health and marine
hospital service: the good it has accom-
plished in health matters in the past and
its hopes for the future.
Beginning in 179S with one hospital at
Boston, 1t now has them scattered all
over the country. on the coast, the great
lakes and along the big rivers. They are
to be found at Portland. New York, Will
mington. Del: Key West. New Orleans.
San Francisco. Port Townsend. Buffalo,
Cleveland. Detroit. Chicago. Pittsburg.
and st. Louis. There are also fourteen
relief stations in addition. These insti-
tutions give active practice and valuable
experience to officers to meet demands
during epldemlcS that are on or expected.
A Boon to Seamen.
"Seamen.' said DR.. Wyman. go to
them for treatment as to a home to
which they are entitled, not as charity
patients" He referred to the expert
enced nurses developed in these places.
and related some amusing incidents of
nurses who would not or could not be
developed. one especially who disobeyed
the doctors orders in serious case Of
double pneumonia because the patient had
insulted him years before.
DR.. Wyman mentioned the other
branches of the government service
which were dependent In a measure upon
his branch. The life-saving service. the
revenue cutter service. the steamboat in
tested for color blindness, were some of
them.
He said through the efforts of the pub
lie health and marine hospital service a
marine hospital had been established at
Fort Stanton. with it's forty-eight miles
of dependent territory. for the treatment
of tuberculosis. and added that remark
able cures had been effected there.
Pure outdoor air. good food and the
climate there" he said. has done won
ders with this dread disease
Effective Quarantine Service.
He then reviewed the progress Of
the laws enacted for quarantine
service. both at home and abroad
whereby great epidemcs have been
warded from this country which overran
others where like precautions had not
been taken. Special reference was made
to the bill of health required from our
foreign officers for those who come here
from abroad, and the fact that during
r,Jn nf
pie provided with such bills came here
without developing a single case on board
or afterward. while other ships which
went to South America became floating
pens of cholera and had eventually to
turn back to their starting point
The development of the quarantine
service in the south for the prevention
of the spread of yellow fever and its
good results was also referred to. as
well as the good done by the quarantine
ing of the American troops returned
from Cuba during the Spanish war.
He recounted the difficulties encoun-