The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-03-04
HEALTH BUREAU
STRONGLY URGED
Bill Soon to Be introduced Is
Backed by Associations
and Physicians.
WOULD SAVE NATION BIG SUM


Busy with Financial Legislation
Observation-Disclosures Favors
Central Bank Scheme.
ington.-Congress is to be
asked before long to pass bill ere.
ating what shall be called a National
Bureau of Public Health. II is u-ged
that great associations and thousands
of individual physicians are anxious
the government shall take cognizance
of the necessity for 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
a chief who would have place in the
presidents cabinet. 1t is not likely
that congress for years to come, at
any rate, will sanction the creation of
such a department of government, but
1t Is likely that a health bureau of
some kind before long will be estab-
lished
1t 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 1t is aided in it's
work by the medical corps of the army
and navy. The American Health
league is petitioning congress to es.
tablish a National bureau of health,
and 1t is asking the people to back up
It's request.
Plea Of Health Officers.
In a communication recently put out
from its New York headquarters, Off.
Gals 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 S1,500,000,
600 in life and labor each year, Off
GERS of this organization are making
every effort to have law speedily
made of their recommendation, which
was contained in the platform of the
three leading parties in the last pres
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
of the land will declare themselves on
this vital question in the next few
weeks, 1t is asserted Uncle Sam soon
may be persuaded to give the same at.
tention to the physical welfare of hui
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 1t 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 OPT
UNI are pointed out, and 1t is said that
to control and minimize their sale
ought to have the sanction, the back.
ing and the aid Of government blu.
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
a Laboratory of Criminology The
subcommittee of the committee on IT,.
dietary has just reported favorably
bill which appropriated sum of
money for the establishment of such
intention of the lawmakers, if they |
pass a bill of this kind, to make the |
bureau large affair What the |
friends of the measure want is to |
have appointed three or four special. !
lists in criminology who will make !
a deep study of the causes of crime |
with a view of finding out if it is not
possible in some way to bring to bear
the preventive measures which are so
mucn Detler tnan cure measures.
Crime | Disease.
Some people 60 so far as to say that
crime in many of its forms is a 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 impeled TO
rhine by what may be called real
motives If congress shau
establish a bureau of criminology, the
Experts will study living conditions of
he people, the effect of poverty and
liquor drinking on crime. and many
,ther subjects which may shed light
lpon the main question. The same
that is used by physicians
or the establishment of such a bureau
IS they want is used by the friends Of
he other project They say that II
Jncle Sam is willing to spend millions
very year through the agricultural
apartment to check the ravages Of in.
ect pests, that he ought to be willing
0 spend few thousands to check the