East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-04-07
.UMAT|LLA' 10TH COUNTY
IN STATE TO ENDORSE
PUBLIC HEALTH LEAGUE
Meeting Was Held in Pendleton
Last Evening and Presided
Over by DR.. F. E. Boyden.


The medical fraternity of Pendleton
and Umatilla county fell in line as the
tenth county Of the state to give en-
1 dorsement to the work of the League
for the Conservation OF Public Health
when representatives of the profess
sion voted to support the work of the
league. The meeting was held in the
county library last night and was pre-
sided over by DR.. F. L. Boyden OF this
city
! Dr. Joseph A. Petit, of Portland,
member of the executive committee of
the Oregon branch of the national or
ganization. and H F. McInturff, exc
cutive secretarv, were the sperial
speakers at the meeting.
Meetings of similar nature will be
| held at La Grande tonight and at Bak-
er Friday night. This is the first time
formal effort has been made to
strengthen the work of the organiza-
ton in this section of the state.
The oregon unit of the organization
has been in operation only a brief time,
but the unit has been active during the
recent session of the legislature and its
tllOINS were Chiefly lHSNi AiA
the defeat of five bills which touched
on matters of public health. The leg
islative bills were the Chiropody bill.
the Drugless Physicians Bill, the Chi
ropractic bill, the Anti-Compulsory
Vaccination bill and the Latin Pre-
scription bill.
DIR. c. ]. Smith, Portland, formerly
Of Pendleton. is state president, and
DR.. f. A Lieuallen is a member of the
advisory committee. The purposes OF
the organization are as follows:
To investigate, collect. prepare and
disseminate all obtainable data prac-
tically touching the conservation, inn
provement, and protection of the pub
lie health, and put the principles of
preventive medicine and surgery into
general practical effect.
To create Committees of Specialists
to study, discuss, analyZe and report
on the causes and effects of the speci-
fic diseases and conditions that con-
stitute community health problems,
factory sanitation and industrial ny
giene.
To publish and circulate health bull
teAllS, lcdtitASf pdiAliilttto anu
appropriate literature. TO educate and
organizbe public opinion, make the i'm
rortant facts of hygiene household
knowledge and thereby eradicate pop,
llar errors and unsound views.
10 stimulate scientific research to-
solve the doubtful public health prob
lens and make known to the public
BY appropriate literature, timely lee
lures and through the press, the prob
lens and progress of scientific medi-
cine.
To promote a wider aud more accu-
rate knowledge and adoption of pre-
ventire measures in the home, the
school, the store, the factory farm
and mine.
To study sympathetically and sys-
tematically from the humanitarian and
ultilitarian standpoint such social
problems as are the cause of effect of
disease.
To investigate tho environmental
causes of disease and the most eff
cacious methods OF prevention and
treatment of communicable diseases
seek To improve living and working
conditions and suggest desirable legis'
lation to promote and protect the
public health.
To undertake Independent and inn
partial sociological and experimental
medical research, and comprehensive
investigation into the difference be-
tween urban and rural mortality, con-
ditiops affecting various sections and
localities Of Oregon. Including tho
problems of tuberculosis malaria, can,
Ger and pneumonia. protection of in
can't life and maternity. milk food,
water supply and general sanitation.
To conduct bureau Of research and
information which will Investigate ana
furnish health statistics to all mem-
hers. to cooperating organizations
and societies, and to the press,
And generally to initiate. encourage.
foster aid and promote such activi-
ties as tend to advance. conserve and
protect the public health.