Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-30

tain if the disease has spread to the
eastern side OF the mountains
Much has been written and said about
the nveStigationS into pellagra. These
are being conducted through the labora-
tory and hospital at Savannah, Ga More
than 1000 cases have been stud-ed with
valuable results. Men are. constantly in
the field studying conditions of life IN
the region where pellagra has appeared
to add to the sum of knowledge about
the disease.
DR. c. w. Stiles of the service, who
discovered the first cases of hookworm
in 1902, is now acting as sanitary ad-
wiser of the Rockefeller comm .ss.on for
the eradication of that disease. Work IS
in progress in all states. DR.. Stiles is
have a branch hospital and laboratory
in which he is making an investigation
of the intestinal parasites of man.
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In somewhat the same manner We
are conducting field studies of malaria
in Alabama. Arkansas. North Carolina
and elsewhere.
Il have touched bur briefly on the
activities in the field under the head OF
domestic sanitation: there are many
more than those | have named
Intimately associated with this field
work is the work Of scientific research
conducted through the hygienic laboratory
in Washington. The plague laboratory in
San Francisco the leprosy Investigating
station in Hawaii. the pellagra station at
Savannah and the hookworm station at
Wilmington all articulate with this CEN
trail laboratory. Field studies all litter
through this hygienic laboratory. which i
both a clearing house for the investiga-
tions in the field and a center of indie
caianfifip Investigation
1.-The division of sanitary reports and
statistics has vastly important work to do
1t disseminates the information We ac-
Guire making ii available for local health
authorities everywhere as well as for the
public generally 1t collects morbidity re
ports reports of epidemics, and infornia-
ton pertaining to the geographic distribu-
ton of disease and climate in relation to
health and disease.
Accurate mortality and morbidity re-
ports and statistics are essential TO
proper outlook the health prohielns OF
the country, but We are dependent on the
individual states and their lesser political
units to furnish the information. Thani1s
to our campaigning for model state laws
on the subject. the states are randy ta.i-
ing into line and providing the machinery
for securing accurate returns. tast year
North Carolina improved her laws cor
gathering such data. and Kentucky, Ten
nessae and Arkansas were added 70 tie
number which secure the necessary irIor-
nation Missouri also has adopted the
model law. So that now We Obtain falrlS
accurate information from areas when
contain approximately 10 per cent Of the
population.
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Surgeon General Blue brings TO his task
of guarding the public health the equip
ment of long training in the service to
which he is devoted. He was born IN
Richmond county, n. c., May 80. 1867
On being graduated from the University
of Maryland with the degree of NJ. ID. In
1892, he entered the service an inferno,
and a year later he became an assistant
surgeon. In his career he has seen sery-
ice at Cincinnati, Galveston, Charleston,
s. c.: San Francisco. Portland, Ore; Mil
waukee, Genoa. Italy; New York, Nor
folk, Va; Honolulu and New Orleans
Service In 1898 at the San Francisco
quarantine station turned his interest to
tropical diseases i'm which he is now
ranked as an authority. Three years ago
he was graduated from the London School
of Tropical Medicine.
His special knowledge of these diseases
led to his being placed in charge of the
operations for the eradication of bubonic
plague I'm San Francisco in 10000. In
1905 he was sent TO New Orleans on yell
low fever duty in the epidemic OF that
year. Later he was director of sanitation
at the jamestown exposition until Sep
tember, 1907, when a recurrence OF the