Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-12-27
University of Oregon
Medical School DguzcS
Students From a far

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University of oregon, Dec. "a.
Serving a territory Of 100000
square miles, the University of Ores
gon medical school has the greats
est geographical opportunity OF
any similar institution in the Unit.
ed States, according to President
p. L. Campbell, who yesterday WAS
asked for a statement regarding
oregon's training center for physi-
cians.
He pointed out that as there is
no state medical school in WASH
/ ington. Idaho, Montana or Alaska.
the demand for these states would
be added to those of Oregon for
Ian average number of 12O physi-
clans annually. This number cam
not now be supplied by the Uni
Iyersity Of Oregon medical, school,
which, with its present limited car
4 pacitgc can turn out a maxiEum Of
Ionly So graduates. each Year. One
hundred of the students who &D-
fhed for admission last fall had to
be turned away. as
/ BY satisfying the demands iar
its service, he said, the University
Of oregon medical school, will be-
come the John Hopkins of the
northwest and Portland, the seat
of the school. will become the hos
kpital center for five states.
Early diagnosis and adequate
treatment will become available TO
bevery afflicted citizen of Oregon
and out of the research carried on
in the laboratories will come con-
tributions to cures for the list Of
dread diseases that still cast their
menacing shadows upon society
goitre, tuberculosis, pneumonia and
cancer that cause one eighth of the
death of women and one tenth Of
the deaths Of men above the age Of
forty.
What these state hospitals such
as are maintained by Michigan and
Iowa will mean in terms Of human
happiness is evidenced by what
oregon has been doing since 1917
in bringing to the medical school
hospital the children that are
MANNED and crippled and sending
them home with Strengthened limbs
and with physical hardicaps re-
moved from their lives.
Reinforcing the work of the
medical school, several other de-
partments Of the university are
carrying on important health edu-
cation.
"rhe department Of sociology
through the extensions division is
working for better community
health, for sanitation and for q
general public environment inhos-
pitable to disease.
"rhe school of physical eduea-
ton maintains dispensary so that
the 1900 university students re-
iceive regular attention Of q colnpe-
tent physician and when i'll are
| cared for by trained nurses in hos
pltal wards and upon the campus.
Its cooperative work in social hy-
giene included experiments watch
are being carried on in several Or
egon high school. This depart
mement also trains each year a
large number of teachers who give
instruction in physical health eau
cation in the public schools of the
state. G#
"At the request of the legislature
4 state-wide survey Of mental de-
feet delinquency and dependency
was started March 1, 1919 an ! vii
be finished this spring, the Unitee
| states Public Health service FUR
nishing DR.. Chester j.. Carlisle 'c
conduct the survey with the Vdipn'
teer help of the citizens OF oregon
4 The survey cards coming IN iruir
all parts Of the state have peen ~
4 time filled with statistics OF hu'
man grief and hope and fear 'fhl'
survey is the first statewide 60
. loperative campaign in mental ny
| giene ever attempted. The infor
nation gathered shows how de
} pendency, often due to some sim
ple and durable physical DISORDER
may widen mtilsit becomes q h''''
ace to public welfare IL,
'The extension division ol tn'
/. university is also A member ol ~
state advisory committee OF pupli'
hoalth nursing, an dis co-operati9s
a,ith The health work of the Amer
lean Red Cross and the Anu-I u'9et @
rulosis league. II sends out poPu
Iar lectures on health TO ofebo
communities and widely circulate
Sontcrn slides and moving pleVlif'
cIn,s dealing with various loPie
- individual and commune
/ health The Portland eXteVsl',
center in It's work In socloioB9t >
frnining public health nurses ~ ~
, socia1 workers, eleven OF Whoi
,yuI be graduated next spring
/ ",rbus the University Of oregon, ,,
/ ..,ys president Campbell, is deept
= interested In the broad eeileiu "a
+ boalth program developing IN ihan
/ 1irectious in the state oregon
+ an ,cropnt Of its climate, us eco
@ nomlc conditions and the nisll-' y
r. 81 intelligence OF it, populati'li y,
r Gtted to take first rank IN hs'''
s an,opa the states Of the union
t Montreal. quebec, Dec 2f'--ill f'il
n ,.rpatlonal agreements by WalG
IS oOo. 900 horsepower a year ioVl "
~ bc developed al Niagara Faiis -
n -,o rpfacturing purposes in me ~
T. tca states and Canada were urt'
e ,y ~ Kenard Thompson, not'
engineer. in an address mere
"If the policy of the five pio'.
companies now using power ,' =
apara Fails were followed -
sIr Thompson. "thc greatest fi''l