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connpilsnment In lines of medical andeavor oro
- nSO"h 10 the profession There are six as
w q Stimneor s enerals. Doctors A. H. Clennan.
RnoEar -, p9o1, L. E. Cofer ]. w Kerr, W. c.
eUI I ana j. w. Trask They are all stationed
-, ~snineton and have direction over the va
- anches In all parts of the country
fNecentV IN the medical council there anneore5~
this brief but conclusive statement - .pu
Iold functions Of the public health service - En-
United States government: - -
cooperating through the health authorities
OF the states the service collects data ,,rFn +h
pfeNaiehce and distribution of disease admins
tiers interstate quarantine supDressea enido1aios
eonuuces research work, maintains national ouar-
anime. examines immigrants regulates the manu-
iecture and sale OF biologic medicinal nroducts In
interstate traffic and furnishes madicai +rootra.
TO various branches of the government service
on1cers OF the service may be ASSIGNED tn dutv in
any part of the world" -
1t is the intention in the nrasen+ or+i, /. -,
up and describe only one of the works and fields
OF labor Of the public health service The waters
OF Chesapeake bay and its inIets and tributaries
form the held OF an enormous industry It Is
from these waters that taken large mart ~
the she'll fish approved as a delectab1e food nv
thousands and perhaps millions who never saw
salt water. How many Americans noddfng with
the approval OF appetite over their oysters on the
haif shell know that it has been made a matter
of government concern that the shell fish should
be food as safe to the health as 1t is grateful
to the taste?
IL mas Deen SAID that the American people sho-T
great interest in dreadnaught, a big ship built
for offensive purposes and, If It is not putting it
too strongly, mainly for the sinking of other shios
and their crews along with them-a killing pr
pose Is it not to be hoped that an equal If not
greater interest may day be created in the
little ships of the government whose only work
and only purpose are saving ones?
In the control of the public health service Is g.
little ship called the Bratton It bears the pame
OF surgeon of the service who did commanding
work for mankind in great yellow fever epidemic
and who laid down his life for humanity The
scene of the Bratton's activities is the waters
of the great shell fish producing bay which washes
Maryland and the tributaries thereto. It is of
the ships helping to guard the lives of ninety mil
lions of people,
The work Of safeguarding the shell fish beds
from pollution and thereby performing the work
of prevention at from which danger fire.
quently springs, falls in the field of direction OF
Assistant Surgeon General ]. W. Kerr, stiI charge
of the division of scientific research" To give
idea Of the immensity of the field of precau-
tiOn prevention and coming under the direc
ton OF one man 1t may be said that Doctor Kerr's
duties set forth in the organization chart OF
the service appear as follows: Laboratories
leprosy investigation station, Hawaii; hygienic
laboratory, Washington, d. c.; division Of chemis
try. zoology. Dharmacology pathology and bac
teriology. Field Investigations: Diseases affect
ing man, pollution of streams by sewage and in
dustrial wastes. rural hygiene and school hygiene
The services of the good ship Bratton given