Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-17
PUBLIC HEAL TIL WORK
STILL IN ITS INFANCY
Study " Municipal Activities In Each
~ 22T Cities With Population
oC $4,000 on Over
TWELVE TESTS ARE APPLIED
Statistics Show Average per Capital
Expenditure OF ID CentS--lScttcr
Developed Departments in South
Than in Northern Cities.
Special - vhc Times-D,sna,.n !

Special I" The Times DtSpatcn
NEW YORK. !aan:ry To That puk-
lie health work IN this country * still
in its infancy - tho conclusion .ivtwu
i'll study. made public to-day. uf NIT
nIctral health department activities in
each T.: th" @"1 cities OF the i'n;,od
States having population oc =. Gnp
az more
Franz Schneider. Jr.. saut,ar;an for
The department OF surveys and exhiu-
its. russell Sage foundation. conduct
ed the Investigation.
TEc Investigation covered tn. cities
having - population Of ZOO or eyer
III 1910. although repeated efforts :ail-
"d ~ securing data 'ronn :ny nf the
following cities: coiunbia : o.
Council l:iums. Iowa; lolyokc Mr.s
Joplin, Mo; Knoxville Tenn New
port. ~. Springfield. Mo. Waco.
Tr$;.s.
Twel>" tests were "ppiied-arp""-
priatinus. infant hyricnn work, m.tli-
cal inspection % schoolchildren lab
orator, service. health education and
publicity. control "f vcucrcal diseases
housing regulation. .iispcusary service
tuberculosis work. Industrial hygiene
and the inmhcr Of surface closets
Tho statistics Of appropriations
and sanitoria! plumbing, in.pectional
street cleaning, the removal or dis
pnSal of dead animals, refuse, gar
baEc or night soil! aud any other tu-
usual undertakings which arc % in
direct hrSicnic value. The average
per capita expenditure was =. cents
The largest agurc was that OF Seattle
sas: t:t Snalles, that or Clinton. Iowa
three fourihs Of cent Others Of the
larger expenditures were. Memphis
Tenn. IS cents; Pittsburgh. "a II!
cents: Augusta. Ga; IL cents. ana
New York CITY. IS cents Among fhc
smaller We're i.asiun. Pa > cents: M
rora, H., aud South BEND. Ind. 3
cents. Woonsocket, K. l.. cents. aaa
Lewiston. Me. cents. Such small
appropriations arc by no means rare
and arc 10 bc found ia almost am.
part Of the country
LARGER EXPENDITURES
As poPILtTIoN INCREASES
cities under 100000 population speat
AN average per capita Of /? cents
those between 100. 900 and 100000 sncnt
- cents per inhabitant. while the sey-
cuteca cities above 100000 invested . n
average per capita Of 81 cents in pre-
Nentivc health efforts.
Tho two groups OF States with IN,
biggest average per capita are The
East South Central and the south
.Nuantic'' States, as they are known 10
the United States Census. Ia these
States, covering the territory east Of
the mississippi and south Of the ohio
aud Pennsylvania. the average per
capita was 80 ana 81 cents Tile low
est average per capita. L. cents. is
credited 10 the West North cent-a!"
and East North Central states. co..
er,A:; the territory from Colorado 10
PENNSYLVANIA and south from Cans ~
10 oklahoma and the Ohio River Tire
Mid lie Atlantic States of Pennsvl-
Nauia, New York and New Jersey in 4.
crease this amount by cents a head.
Interest in saving infant lives was
tested by the extent to which cities
have attempted milk inspection and
employed nurses or maintained baby
welfare stations. Less than half the
cities have both these features while
III forty-fve cities no effnr; Whatever
was made, not even milk inspection.
The New EnSla nd" aud East South
ten'ra. groups had the largest pro-
portions ~ cities with q Complete
program this time. followed closely by
the 'FGciiic" ana West South Gem
. trar groups Again West Norm
Central and East North ccn,rai''
stood ~ the bottom.
The provision for medical inspection
OF schoolchildrcn is most complete in
the New England and Middle Atlarsic
States. with the Pacific and South
Central States following. The Noun