The Washington herald., 1922-03-15
HEALTH
WORK LAUDED
Postmaster General Asks
Extension of u. S.
Program.
CITES BEN Eft S
National Conference Hears
Leaders in Medicine
Discuss Progress.

Extension of the public health
service program was advocated by
Postmaster General Hubert Work.
speaking before the conference of
educational and medical leaders
considering public health matters
at the American Red Cross Build
ing yesterday.
DR.. Work pointed to various
cults and ''quacks" which invent
and not prevent disease" as an i'm
portant reason for public health
education.
Speakers at both morning and
afternoon sessions of the confer
ence pointed to the tremendous ex-
pansion of health work during re-
cent years as reasons for develop
ing the machinery for applying this
new knowledge and bringing the
education of future workers in
public health abreast of recent ad-
vances IN medicine.
Cure for Unrest.
Extensive social unrest might
well be prevented by the use OF
mental hygiene, DR.. William A.
White, superintendent OF st. Eliza
beth's Hospital. argued. Such
hygiene. he said, meant healthy
minds inhabiting healthy bodies
and would be equally effective in
preventing excessive turnover in in
dustry.
Inadequate remuneration, desire
for personal contact with patients
and a dislike for politics were
among the chief reasons outlined by
DR.. Edwin o. Jordan. of the Uni
yersity of Chicago. why medical
students did not enter schools OF
p-blic health and public health
work.
A new education. better remuner-
alton and more secure tenure TOT
public health workers was urgeo
bv Surgeon General Hugh S. Cum
ming in opening the conference
Yesterday morning. He explained
the conference was the first ever
called to consider public heaith
problems and that the need for puo-
lie health workers was now acute:
Dr. william II. WEIGH. director oil
the Johns Hopkins School of Public
Health, presided over the sessions
Failure to include the edu-
Gated group at the start in public
health work was criticised by DIT
willard s. Small, of the Federal Blu
reau of Education. CommissiYher OF
Health Hermann ". Biggs. of New
Nd daRInFRd
far more important to teach the
mass Of people until they In turn
could bring pressure upon ana cd
ucate the leaders. The medical pro
fession would be the last group to
approach. he concluded. after pra.s-
ing widespread propaganda for
health
Urge Research Work.
DR.. A. NJ. Stimson. of the United
states Public Health Service and DR..
Vernon kellogg. of the NatioUFi
Research Council emphasized te
Importance of research. DIR. kello3
declared that his recent visit to the
Volga region OF Russia showed that
the famine conditions are due IN
part to a lack OF scientific knowl-
edge. We must ever press forward
beyond the horizon to new achieve
ments.
Among the other speakers were
Prof. c. E A. Winslow. of Yale
University; DR.. Walter II. Brown. OF
Mansfield, Ohio; President Frank J.
Goodnow, Johns Hopkins Univers-
ity: DIR. A. T. Mccormack, of the
Kentucky State Board of Heath,
and. DR.. A. J Mclaughlin and DR..
L. l.. Lumsden. of the United States
Public Health Service.
The sessions will continue
through tomorrow. The conference
is being held under the auspices
of the United States Public Health