The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-03
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SUBSTITUTE
MEASURE
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BOARDS Oh Fl E All T H
ALLRGE MANN is
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PRAISE 0klAHOMAhS
IN HEALTH BILL
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Declare Public Health Is Of
More Importance Than
Has Been Given
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Special to Daily Leader.

Special to Daily Leader
New York, May 3.--Congrees seems
to nave heard at last the voice OF the
people for there are now four DIS
before the house Of representatives
each calling for radical changes III
the present Federal statutes, Which
have to do with the public health
TO Senator Owen Belongs the c.ed-
ii OF being the pioneer and, thanks
TO his energy and persistence, ana u
the committee OF one hundred on ma
tional health, and the American Meu,
jcal association, the people from eha
To end of the country have been
aroused to some realization OF the
wastefuI horror Of our present ipsui'
ficlent laws and regulations to SAFE
suard the public health. Senator
owens bill and the house copy 81 "
the Creager bill, is the most Tar
reaching of the now pending meas
ures. 1t calls for the establishment
OF National Department OF Health'
under a secretary who shan be
member OF the presidents cabinet
I'm THE department there are 70 be
consolidated, in the words Of the DILL
aAll departments and bureaus belong
iug 10 any department excepting the
department OF war, the department OF
the navy, affecting the medlcal,
surgical. biological or sanitary sery-
jce. "and particularly including the
bureau Of public health and marine
hospital service and the bureau Oh
chemistry and of animal industry
Mr.. Hannas house bill is an exact
duplicate of the Owen-Creager meas
ure and the Simmons bill, while y
would establish a new department OF
health with the same duties and pow
ers as contemplated by the owen
Creager measure puts at the head 81
THIS department a Commissioner oil
Health and under him director
general of public health, both to De
appointed by the president, by ana
with the advice OF the senate
Mr.. Mann Of Illinois has Just pre-
pared still another bill, which Is
bound to have great bearing on the
issue of the program for the reform
OF our national health laws, not only
because of the inherent qualities oil
the bin itself, but because as virtual
floor leader OF the majority party ~
the house and as chairman OIL ,he
committee on interstate and foreign
commerce before which all these Dllis
viii come up for review. Mr. Manns
bin. while a great Improvement upon
tha acts under which the pubic
health are now so inadequately man
aged cannot, however, be looked
unon as a satisfactory substitute toi
the Owen-Creager bill which has the
unqualified support Of a very consM
cradle body OF state health officers
sanitary engineers and medical mel
and is endorsed by the lie insurance
interests and Dy many others Wne
haya given careful thought to TINS
whole large subject OF a proper ana
sufficient extension OF the health ac
tjyities of the Federal government,
The vice of the Mann bill is that II
attempts to cure with physics ana
nils where the doctors are agreed
only the knife will do. Still the cank
ering sore will be there TO eat away
and destroy the effectiveness OF tn'
bolstered up bureau, spite OF the ran
promise OF new yigor and outward
SHOW OF added strength, Doctoi
Manu,s prescription would seem t1
hold out. The care of the pubhC
health would still be conhded TO tht
secretary OF the treasury.
The country does not wish again K
"a through such an experience a.
that to which IT was subjected When
the Dubonic plague broke out in Sa1
Francisco in 1900. AS Senator owen
has stated before the senate:
aThe secretary OF the treasury was
not selected as cabinet officer be
cause of his knowledge Of the pubic
health, but because he was an expert
ON finance. AT present our cabinet
expert on finance directs government
activities in controlling bubonit
plague and the board OF trade and
few commerciaHzed physicians oi
Sar Francisco would be more impor
tant in his eyes IN all human proba'
bjlity than the chief OF one Of his
subordinate bureaus; al al events
this waH true as TO previous seere
tary.y
This bin of Mr.. Mann's even though
It provides that the public health and
marine hospital service shall be re
named the pubic health service and
shall now make Investigations Of pot
luton OF interstate streams, of the
prevalence of tuberculosis, typhoid
fever and other Infectious diseases,
shall disseminate practical informa'
tion concerning the suppression OF
these diseases by means OF exhibits
aad bulletins and shall do other nee
essary things that too long have been
left undone, is not measure with
which the intelligent critics of our
present public health work viii be
satisfied.
The subject OF the nations health
Ii OF magnitude too important TO be
left TO the military organization OF q