New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-07

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and issuance OF
press bulletins of weekly bulletin sent TO all
physicians, school principals, clergymen, city
officials. etc, of a monthly bulletin containing
special articles on public health subjects, staff
news for the information Of employees Of the
Department Of Health, the Otisvlle Ray for
the information OF the patients at the Munich
pal Sanatorium, reprints and monographs de-
scriptive OF the departmental activities, circu-
lars OF information, placards. etc.
Lectures-Organizatio and giving Of edu
cational lectures on health topics for en-
ployes Of the Department of Health and for
high schools, colleges, clubs, civic organiza'
tons, labor unions, etc.
"Exhibits-The preparation and display OF
exhibits dealing with the work OF the depart
ment Such exhibits shown in schools, set
Element houses. clinics. vacant stores, etc.
Moving Picture Activites-The prepare
ton and exhibition OF films devoted to public
health topics. the holding of free moving
picture exhibitions in parks, recreation cen
tres, Fairgrounds etc. Cooperating with
moving picture theatres to display lantern
slides dealing with matters OF public health.
cooperating with other city departments
and organizations interested in public health
work and providing these with material suit
able for educating the public in health mat
ters."
The Commissioner and his bureau believe
that education, like charity, should begin at
home. Hence the institution OF a comprehen-
sive course of lectures designed better to mt
the employees OF the department for their
work The lectures, now in full swing, are
adapted in groups for medical inspectors, SAM
tary and food inspectors, hospital nurses, held
nurses and clerks.
A society for clinical study has been or
ganized in each OF the hospitals of the de-
partment. Each member OF the hospital staff
is expected to devote himself during his spare
hours to the pursuit of some special topic or
branch of medicine and obtains leave OF alb
sence from the hospital during stated hours
each week for the practical pursuit of the
special subject assigned to him. A higher
grade OF medical work, it is expected Will re-
suit from this postgraduate work. The de-
partment is also establishing free post-gradu-
ate instruction in contagious diseases for pri-
vate physicians through spring and tall
courses of clinical demonstration in its con-
tagious disease hospitals. In this manner IT
hopes eventually to interest the physicians OF
the city as a class in the immediate prevention
of contagion, to keep their knowledge OF con-
tagious diseases and the proper treatment OF
them fresh in their minds, so that, by proper
and speedy diagnosis in each instance and
the taking Of necessary measures, they may
nip all epidemics in the budf
Another, and by no means the least impor-
tant, OF the new educational activities OF the
department is that in relation to industrial
hygiene From time to time, writes Com
missioner Goldwater, Legislation to promote
occupational hygiene has been prompted by
private societies. This year the Department
of Health of the City of New York, for the
first time in its history, has claimed this held
for its own The method proposed, however,
is wholly that of education. No increase IN
the departments force of inspectors is con-
templated.
wherever the rate Of sickness is unduly
high because Of unsanitary conditions of en-