The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-31
BIG GLASS SENT FORTH
BY MEDICAL, COLLEGE.
1t Graduates Receive Diplomas, Dr..
Iompkins Referring to Fact That This Was a
Best Year-Byrd Bloquently Commends
War on Disease.

, DR.. II. G. Tarter.
johnston Willis Sanatorium, Rich.
fnoho---Drs. d. P. Scott. G. C. Hankin.
and Clarence Campbell.
ST. Leon Hospital. Greensboro N q
--Dr. II. H. Powell
Kings Daughters Hospital, port.
mouth-To be filled.
Orthopedic Hospital and In6rmarv
Tor Nervous Diseases. Philadelphia.
=. aunt, H. II. Harris and one
other to be named.
United States Marine Hospital, Buf.
falo-Drs. J. P. Bowles and a III,
Tieche. ~
This makes a total of eighteen hos.
pitol appointments which have aIreadv
neen filled. With ak moro to be se-
iected as soon as applicants can ba
secured. I.- 80 ''
Commend Health work.
In his address Mr. Byrd urged an
Intelligent cooperation between thu
medical profession generally and the
state departments OF health with
view Of tho final suppression Of pre-
Yentabie dlaeases. lfo referred at
virginia State Department OF Health.
which he pronounced the greatest
achievement OF the session OF the Gem
eral Assembly OF 1905
Speaking OF this he said:
THE credit for this was largely due
TO Captain w. w. Baker, OF Chester
held, whose public spirit. energy and
influence were behind the creative law.
II the law itself Is bonefcent, so this
State has been fortunate IN the men
who are at the head OF this great
health movement In virginia. In DR..
Ennion q. Williams. Dr. Allen w.
Freeman. for the State Board. and DR..
+. G. Levy, OF the City Board NO
have three men OF the highest ORDER
or Intelligence OF the greatest de-
votion. who are cooperating In the
noblest work that can employ the
labor OF men,
achievement OF this trio OF. putlic
health servants. taking up each de-
partment or bureau of the d apartment
and explaining what has been ac-
complished in three years. Ills sum
mary showed concluslvely that ex-
cellent results mad been achieved.
He declared also that TO add fur
Their to the efficiency of the State Board
Of Health II is Imperative that 1
bureau OF Statistics he established.
The State Board OF Health" he said.
cannot work out Its problems in tho
most effective manner without these
statistics. and Ii i am a member OF
the next General Assembly will vote
Tor such law"
stnie's Duty to It's People.
In concluding his address, AIR. Byrd
said:
81 have heard it said that few
physicians. think very few. have
claimed that the State has no business
to heal people because IL is an inter
ference with the gains OF the doctor
That is very inhuman and a very
foolish opinion, and am sure is not
shared by the vast majority of the
noble army OF medical practitioners
Physicians prosper as the community
prospers. and the wise and efficient
physician can always find ample oc-
cupation In preventing or caring for
and alleviating the, sufserings OF man
kind. An epidemic stricken or a dis
ease ridden community is in the end
no better fotr the doctor than any
one else
81 have spoken to you of the duty OF
tho State in the relations to public
health. The State Is not altogether
a great business enterprise. though
most of its functions are largely OF
a business character But the State
stands In a certain sense as the parent
of the people with certain moral
duties which are rooted In our common
humanity. ] think that the preserva-
ton of human health, the suppression
OF preventa BILE diseases, the care and
IL necessary, the segregation Of the
hopelessly strick en-. Is one of the duties
of the Commonwea lth.
Humnne and Right.
ut is duty not because 1t pays
financially. though 1t does that. too.
but because 1t is the humane and
right thing to do.
Il am not much moved by the state
ment OF human values in dollars and
cents. It is not very Impressive TO
say that every death from tubercu-
loss means the loss OF SO much money
to tile community. What such death
really means is the extinction of a
human life, the closing of a human
account which Is written in nights Of
despair and in anguished hearts.
"a short time ago ] inspected the
sanatorum at Catawba. SOW the
hope in the faces of the patients, the
hue of health returning to tho checks
OF the convalcscents. saw men WHO
have been discharged and are max Il
Ing their living In the world.lll L saw
enough to realize that with scientific
aid, bestowed in part by the State.
with wise regulatiye laws and, ren
sonable appropriations, there are per-
sons living to-day who will see tho
| practical extinction of the dreadful
disease which has so long afflicted
mankind
81 came away from there friend
! OF the State Department of Health
and all that It stands for.
II cannot do better than TO say TO
this class. and the profession general I
/ ly, that there exists for you perhap s
the greatest work which has been I
given TO mantle final suppression of
preventable diseases" a.