The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-13
COMPLETE REPORT
 ON HEALTH PLANS
 COMPILED BY FOX
Exhaustive Document Now Available Which Gives Details of System Rec
 commended by Expert

If Birmingham and Jefferson county adopt the unified health system, as recommended by Dr. Carroll Fox, a minimum annual expense of $75,S70 will be incurred However. in the de- tailed report of the health situation in the Birmingham district, which was received here yesterday, the govern nlent health specialist has outlined a system that, for thoroughness and eff ficiency should make the present death rate of 6.5 per 1000 among the white and 14.58 per 1000 among the negroes even lower
 The complete report, which is fol- lowed by AS specific recommendations is prefaced by statistical account of the health records in Birmingham and Jefferson county After this pr. Fox has added a study Of the administra- ton and organization of the public health situation in Jefferson county and the city of Birmingham.
 In these reports the government of ficial who made an exhaustive inves tigation following the typhoid epi demic, gives details in regard to the registration of vital statistics, the re- port of diseases, the control of dis eases and the means of combating epidemics.
 Under the municipal engineering &C., tiyities he investigated the water sup ply and pronounced it to be very sat isfactory. "The methods pursued in securing a pure water supply for the city are modern and efficacious," the report says The disposal of sewage and the collection and disposal of garbage and rubbish are treated in the report The milk and food inspec- tion is fully discussed and considered.
 FEATURES OF PLAN
 Following the extensive study of the health situation, pr. Fox submitted 4s reccmm endations.
 The principal features of the report were submitted in brief form by Dr. Fox before he left Birmingham.
 At the head of the Unified health system, if adopted, will be a full-time physician, skilled in the science of preventive medicine. The health or Ganization is to be diveded into two subdepartments. one for the city and the other for Jefferson county Two full-time assistant physicians. skilled in preventive medicine, shall be under the chief. One shall be concerned with the field activities of the county de- partment. while the other shall per form similar duties for the city. Pro- vision is made for the employment of a full-time sanitary engineer and a full-time bacteriologist
 DIVIDED INTO DISTRICTS
 The county is to be divided into five districts. which shall each have pub lie health nurse and a sanitary in- spector. The county must appropriate $30,700 to be expended for a county health officer and assistant; sanitary engineer, clerk and registrar five public health nurses; five sanitary in spectors and a bacteriologist and lab oratory assistant
 The city is to be divided into four parts-a division of epidemology, san itation, milk and food inspection, and vital statistics. The city is to be divided into 10 districts and each dis trict is to have a public health nurse
 The city Is to appropriate s45.000. This will be expended in defraying the expenses and salaries of the assistant health officer, registrar of vital sta tistics, clerk, chief sanitary inspector seven assistant sanitary inspectors, chief of milk and food division, two assistant milk inspectors, two meat in spectors, two food inspectors and 10 public health nurses.
 A number of institutions, such as an infant welfare station, anti-tubercu- 1osis dispensary, are provided for in the report.