New Britain herald., 1923-06-29
NATIONAL HEALTH
 LAWS PREMATURE
Msdlcal Head Says Social Health IseislaiiOn Should Be Avoided

San Fessneisea. Hnne 2s-haE lf- msn wilbur president ef sianteFa unireFsity. cslitOTnis and president es the AmsFiesn Msalesl sssaesasien, tsld delegates 70 ths Iath snnnal con Hsntien af the association here that national social health leglsisilen should hs avoided al this time
 There is al present na enc hest way Of handling the soeiai Fe'sFseHr ships Of medicine he said. For tunsisly. there gre as states ih ihe unieR, se that experiments can he tried cut n them without toe much risk When a good plan is discovered it can he repeated ny other states Not until sae are sure Of eur ground Is national social health legislation aa' Nsable,
 Make Wise nesisiens
 .At every step se must hs aYail- able 10 help in maklng sise decisions To these 10 whom are delegated the safeguarding or the plhlie health should go the responsibility for our protection against inadsauatsly ,Fains cd and vicious practitioners Of an sorts Most important m public health IS the safeguarding Of the death certificate, When anyone who is not a trained physician IS allowed 10 declare the cause af death there is danger Of the spread Of nnFseoE. nirsd disease. vital statistics are ,mr paired. and crime Is made easier II is imperative for the life Of the state 10 guard carefully the gir'h ot i's citizens. 10 have marriage laws that protect its children. and ta know the causes of all deaths,
 woman's New Position
 ..The new position of woman as ciii. Ten and voter. and the capacity of women 10 replace men as industrial workers and as administrators. toeeth- CT with the marked shift of women from tho home and farm 10 the con gested city with It's boarding and apartment houses. have already had their effect on medical practice The hospital is rapidly replacing the home in the care Of the sick and Is having an increased relationship 10 child bearing.
 .when every student in school re ceives some training in biology, the ouack, the patent medicine" cheat. the aggrandized rubber and manipu- iator, and the knotted string faddist will have less fertile soil for their mushroom activities Since we are alive we need to be able to think bio logically about our individual and mass problems if we are 10 avoid de- ception and danger.
 Present Results
 "For the present we can only ex- pect to get high percentage results in the application Of medicine. Every time we learn new fact, the struc- ture of medicine becomes firmer and more dependable. Near facts must fall before facts. There can be no present finality. Dogma has no place authority control.
 "we as social animals can make our particular civilization secure only by developing and controlling our food supply and housing, holding aloof our enemies, particularly the microscopic ones, keeping up proper physical standards of individual and group health. and having ideals Of service and religion that make life cooperative and wholesome.
 General Information
 "wiyh the spread of general infor- nation, decrease in the number Of home patients, the increase in hos pital beds. the enlargement Of ofHce practice, the development Of labora- tories, the changes in the disease pro-