Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-10-19

- 1910
NATION n MUST ACT
To Raise Standard Of Public
Health Work. Dean WeSbrOOk
Of State University Discusses
Life and Health as National
Assets.
That the Federal Government
must lead in public health work was
the main thesis of DR.. F. F. West
brook at the Conservation Congress
in discussing Life and Health as
National Assets" The work of the
Federal Government will no more
supersede or interfere with the
work of the states and cities in pro-
tecting the health of the people
than the work Of the Federal Bu-
reau of Education now conflicts
with our local public schools. The
proposed Federal Bureau of Health
will serve the local health officers
as does the educational bureau by
furnishing a clearing house for in
formation, facilities for research
and publication nationwide, and
a standard Of sanitary work for the
states to copy. That the nation is
capable Of setting the pace was
shown, said the speaker, by the
splendid work of the Federal Gov
eminent in checking yellow fever
in Cuba and Panama.
The following sixteen reasons in
detail why we should have Ma
tional Bureau or Department of
Health were given:
"First-To stop the spread of ty-
phoid fever through drinking sew
age polluted water of interstate
streams.
"Second-To enforce adequate
Quarantine regulations so as to keep
out Of the country plague and other
similar pestilence.
"Third-To supervise interstate
common carriers, in so far without
such supervision they prove a men,
ace to the health of the travelling
public.
"Fourth--To have central Or
ganizatlon of such dignity and i'm
portance that departments of health
Of states and cities will seek it's CO.
operation and will pay heed to it's
advice.
"Fifth-To influence health au-
thorities, state and municipal, to
enact reform legislation in relation
to health matters.
| 'Sixth-To act as clearing house
of state and local health regulations
and to codify such regulations.
"Seventh-To draw up model
scheme of sanitary legislation for
the assistance of state and municipal
health officers.
Eighth-To gather accurate data
on all questions of sanitation
throughout the United States.
| Ninth-To establish the chief
causes of preventable disease and
unnecessary ill-health.
| :Tenth-To study conditions and
causes of disease recurring in diff
ferent parts of the United Safes.
Eleventh-To correlate and as
sist investigations carried on in
many separate and unrelated biolog-
ical and pathological federal, state
and private laboratories.
"Twelfth-To consolidate and CO.
ordinate the many separate govern
ment bureaus now engaged in indie
pendent health work.
Thirteenth-To effect economics
| in the administration Of these blu.
reaus.
Fourteenth-To publish and dis.
tribute throughout the country bull.
letins in relation to human health.
Fifteenth-To apply our existing
knowledge Of hygiene to our living
conditions.
Sixteenth-To reduce the death
rate".
A national health service is need
ed to act in cooperation with SINH
lar agencies within the states fol
the purpose Of lengthening life, de-
creasing suffering and promoting
!, the vigor and efficiency of our PEG
ple.-P1ess Service of MINI. Asso
ciation for the Prevention and Re
lief Of tuberculosis.
), Sept. 9, 1910.
y The Heroic Age.
Among the many astoundin,
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