Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-03
FOR TRAINING OF men
IN PUBLIC HEALTH WORK
Rockefeller Foundation to Establish
School in Connection With Johns
Hopkins University.
URGENT NEED LONG APPARENT
Emphasized by Difficulty Cities and
States Have in Finding Persons
Equipped for Promoting Santa
ton and Preventive Measures.

NEW YORK. July I'm recognition
OF tho urgent need in this country Of
improved opportunities for training in
preventive medicine and public health
work, the Rockefeller Foundation has
decided to establish a school OF hyriene
and public health in Baltimore in con-
nection with and as an integral mar,
of Johns Hopkins University.
There arc many medical colleges in
the United States which train men for
a career in curative medicine. but, the
facilities for those desiring to devote
themselves to preventive medicine and
the promotion of public health are AS
yet inadequate
The immediate need for such an in
stitution has been empha sized by the
dificulty cities and States have had in
finding men equipped for promoting
public health. sanitation and preven-
tive measures generally.
The possibilities OF usefulness OF
men so equipped have been found to
be without limit in such efforts as
those made by the American Red Cross
in combating typhus in Serbia and by
the international health board of the
Rockefeller Foundation in its cam
paign against hookworm disease
throughout the world
An institute Of hygiene will become
the central feature OF the new school.
Funds will be provided by the founda-
ton for the erection OF suitable
building. In proximity to tho hospital
and the medical laboratories of Johns
Hopkins University. In this building
Will be housed various laboratories and
departments needed in such a school,
such as those of sanitary chemistry,
OF physiology as applied to hygiene.
OF bacteriology and protozoology, OF
epidemiology and industrial hygiene,
OF vital statistics. a museum. library,
etc.
FUNDS TO BE PROVIDED
BY THE FOUNDATION
Additional facilities for instruction
and research will be supplied by the
schools OF medicine, engineering and
social science, the hospital and other
departments OF the university. Funds
Will be provided by the foundat ton for
the maintenance and development OF
tho school in accordance with plans
which are being matured. No pains
will be spared TO develop an institu-
ton which in Its own neld will COM
pare in usefulness with the Rookie
Teller Institute for Medical Research
1t is expected that the school will
be opened in October, 1917. as it Is es-
timated that year will be required
for the construction and equipment Of
the institute and the gathering to-
gether OF the staff OF teachers. DIR.
William II. WEIGH. now professor OF
and DR.. William II. Howell,
professor Of physiology In Johns Hop
work OF organization. DR.. WEIGH will
BIO the director Of the school
The school of public health on the
side OF teaching will be designed pri-
marily to benefit those who plan to
give their lives to the administration
officers. heretofore suffering from In
adequate training facilities. range from
the health commissioners of larger
cities and districts and the higher
technical experts. to inspectors of all
sorts and public health nurses.
In It's study OF the needs to supply
which the institute Of hygiene is to
be established, the Rockefeller Foun-
dalton sought the advice Of a confer
ence Of experts. Among them were:
DIR. a C. Abbott DR.. Hermann NJ
Riggs. DR.. Simon Flexner. DR.. Victor c.
liam II. Park, Wickline Rose, DR.. NJ J.
Rosenau. DR.. Theobald Smith. DR..
George c. Whpple, Dr. c. L. A. Win
slow. DIR. William II. WEIGH. Professor
d. D. jackson.
These experts agreed that a funda-
mental heed OF thc Pupilc fealth SER
vice in this country is a larger supply
OF men properly trained. In their
opinion this need could be met by es-
tablishing schools of public health at
fliated with universities and with med
ical schools. and having nuclei in
stttutes OF hygiene.
The influence and usefulness OF the
school OF hygiene and public health.
as planned. will be extended toward
education of the public by exhibits,
lectures and other means with a view