Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-08-26


this department h. changing Amefi
can agriculture from q merely man
ual industry into a complex science
That there Is AS much room Tor Inn
proyement in our methods of rearing
children as in our methods 81 raising
cattle and pigs. Few viii deny THAT
such improvements as NAV be made
in the human field are vastly more
important r. the nation than those
| that may be made iu the field IF am
imai industry Is seif-evdent Under
these circumstance the burden of
proof tbat There Is some inherent rea-
son why the national government
may not 40 for human beings what
It Is doing "a cfeetigely for plants and
animals. appears 20 rest Of those who
oppose a National Department %
Health.
hui the things thnt a National De-
paitment OF Health might undertake
are not matters n conjecture merely
Already In many Of It's departments
and bureaus. the national govern
meut is concerned with health prob
lens. The War and Navy Depart
ments are constantly dealing with
problems ~ dietetics aud sanitation
The Department 81 Commerce and
Labor. through its immigration
Hureau. must maintain hospitals and
% corps Of medical inspectors in dif-
ferent parts az the country Even
moro important e. the quarantine
service ~ the Treasury Department
maintained solely 60 safeguard the
public health Under the pure food
law ID IS necessary for the govern
ment to have laboratories 10 deter
whether articles ~ Interstate or
foreign offered for sale
free from adulterauts. The saw
Ing If expense and the gain IN eff
that would result from the
consolidation of these and other
health activities under q single de-
partmenf. would alone Justify the
change. organizing health hbora-
tories for experimental work and the
publication Of health bulletins would
follow as q matter az course and soon
The United states might be freed
from the reproach % giving more ar
..ention to The health Of iis live stock
.han Of its citizens
Considering the direction which
scientific thought In reference to
problems Of health and vitality IS
lust now taking, nothing could he
moro beside the mark than "a Identify
he movement for a National De-
partment Of Health with the so-caiied
medical trust" Wise physicians UNI
loubtedly favor tho establishment OF
such q department but the movement
Is essentially q laymeu's movement.
u WAS men like Professor Irving
president 81 the Committee
q one Hundred whose personal ex-
pericnce has led them to place more
,onfidence IN pure air. pure food and
rational exercise than ia drugs. VITO
aroused public interest ia this
question
The National Department OF
when established. will hc.
not "a department 81 medicine, but n
department oC sanitation Education
regulation vii DC it's primary
function and only those whose meth
DDS or remedies VIII not stand invos-
igation need feel uneasy II the pros
pect of lts establishment An honest
efforts toward "a better understand
Ing Of the laws Of health must bc as-
sisted by the work of such "a depart
ment. and |oilounths, and h~omeopaths
o%steopaths, Christian scientists. and
i%iseiplines Of every other school of
healing should unite IN The cndoavor
To- secure los creation by net of con.