Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-11-22
a NATIONAL HEALTH BOARD.

Ono Of the questions left over frol
last session OF Congress is that rels
ting to the establishment of nation:
bourd Of health. That Is question o
which opinions are divided, and, in a
probability the public viii in the nea
future, hear all the arguments OF
both sides.
Those in favor OF national medica
board urge that 1t would render tn,
service more effective than it Is today
by throwing out of 1t the incompctcnts
and duacks. ! would, they hold bring
about uniform set Of theories and
practices for fighting disease insure
government supervision OF many
branches of the public health, and re-
duce the death rate. DR.. Judson Perry
Welsh, dean Of Pennsylvania State
university is quoted by the New York
Evening Post as follows:
Instead of town of 5000 or 1O.-
200 people having twenty or thirty
physicians. each holding himself in
readiness to set fracture. amputate
q limb. adjust spectacles TO weak eyes,
treat fercrs oruptions. diseases of the
testines, and so on down the calendar
or human discusses. | expect before
me middle OF the twentieth century
that we shall see such towns and prob
ABLY portions Of the surrounding coun-
Try under the care of staff OF physi-
cians IN the employ of the govern
Ihent-state. or. possibly national
This medical staff Will have to do
many other things in the community.
II schoolhouse. dwelling house. an
opera house. or a factory Is to be built.
me plans must be submitted to this
staff FOR approval, in order that tho
heating, ventilation. ana sanitary an
p!lances may be correct, and that none
~ these thinSs may become menace
70 the health. and therefore to the
happiness and usefulness of any nor
non or the community: sewerage sys-
,e'n, the water supply of the COM
iuunlW. the street cleaning and. nos
sipiy the house cleaning will be under
me inspection of these medical OK
perts"
rms. II Is supposed, outlines the aims
81 the advocates OF n national health
board.
The opposition led by the League for
MEDICAL Freedom. an organization with
'erhaps hundred thousand members.
ICES IN this proposed board a real men.
ICE, ihey believe that 1t Is n plan for
'ational recognition OF ono school and
he virtual s,Innrass,o !. -, "''u
he result would be exorbtant fees and
medical stasnation. as tho removal of
o''ipetition would naturally mean
tagnation In medical research, they
ay. '"eS
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,llowed the controv.rs, ,,.,.,-s
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