The Carlisle independent., 1910-03-03
HEALTH BUREAU
 STRONGLY URGED
Bill Soon to Be Introduced Is Backed by Associations
 and Physicians.
WOULD SAVE NATION BIG SUM

WUULU SHVE IVA JUN blO SUm President Taft and Senator AIdrich
 Busy with Financial Legislation
 ans-Administration Favors
 Central Bank Scheme.
 Washington.-Cong is to be asked before long to pass bill ere ating what shall be called National Bureau of Public Health. It is urged that great associations and thousands of individual physicians are anxious the government shall take cognizance of the necessity for a more adequate system of guarding the health of the American people. Time and again suggestion has been made that there should be department of health with chief who would have a place in the presidents cabinet. It is not likely that congress for years to come, at any rate, will sanction the creation of such department of government, but it is likely that health bureau of SOiaS hluu DSAOit lOuS VIII uS OoldU- lished
 It must not be taken for granted that Uncle Sam does not do anything to look after the health of his nephews and nieces. The Marine hospital serv- ice is efficient, and it is aided in it's and navy. The American Health league is petitioning congress to es- tablish a National bureau of health, and it is asking the people to back up it's request.
 Plea of Health Officers.
 In communication recently put out from it's New York headquarters, off cials of the bureau of health, say:
 Responding to general demands for such scientific check to the prevent able diseases and deaths that are now known to cost the nation $1,500,000,- 900 in life and labor each year, off, cers of this organization are making every effort to have law speedily made of their recommendation, which was contained in the platform of the  idential campaign and which has been advocated by leaders of every political faith since that time. President Taft has just assured representatives of the American Medical association and American Health league, they declare. that he is heartily in favor of this plan. If the people of every section c 4l. l.. 1,, a1r on, this vital question in the next few weeks, it is asserted Uncle Sam soon may be persuaded to give the same at tention to the physical welfare of hu- man beings that he now does to that of sheep, cattle, hens and hogs"
 The friends of the plan for health bureau under government control say that the bureau is particularly neces- sary to warn the people of this coun- try ''of the dangers that menace their vitality in the most common walks of everyday life" Then the American Health league says that it is calling attention to drugs as well as diseases. Declaration is made that numerous forms of drug habits are becoming more prevalent everywhere in the United States than people realize. The dangers of cocaine, morphine and opi' um are pointed out, and it is said that vigorous efforts which are being made to control and minimize their sale ought to have the sanction, the back ing and the aid of a government bu- reau.
 While physicians are trying to get government recognition of the need of federal safeguards for the health of the nation, sociologists are trying to get Uncle Sam to establish what for lack of a better name they call Laboratory of Criminology. The subcommittee of the committee on ju- dietary has just reported favorably bill which appropriated sum of money for the establishment of such a laboratory or bureau. It is not the intention of the lawmakers, if they pass a bill of this kind, to make the bureau a large affair. What the friends of the measure want is to have appointed three or four special ists in criminology who will make deep study of the causes of crime with view of finding out if it is not possible in some way to bring to bear the preventive measures which are so much better than cure measures.
 Crime ] Disease.
 Some people go so far as to say that crime in many of it's forms is dis ease. A great many people admit that crime is frequently committed by per sons who are the victims of circum- stances and who are not impelled to crime by what may be called real criminal motives. If congress shall establish a bureau of criminology, the experts will study living conditions of the people, the effect of poverty and liquor drinking on crime, and many other subjects which may shed light upon the main question. The same argument that Is used by physicians for the establishment of such bureau as they want is used by the friends of xL-&