Evening star., 1924-06-12
DISEASE ERADICATION
! DECLARED y. S. GOAL
Etimson Says Public Health Work
( Is Incomplete Until
FF This Is Done.
EPIDEMIC OF INJURIES CITED
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Problem for Physicians, Medical
z Convention Is Told.
EPIDEMIC OF INJURIES CITED
By the Associated Press.


z CHICAGO, June l2.-Until disease is
Successfully eradicated public health
service is incomplete, DR.. A. NJ Slim
Son, assistant surgeon general OF the
United States public health service,
Washington, declared in an address pre-
pared for delivery before the Ameri-
can Medical Association today.
In the hands of the health worker
the scientists microscope must
change to telescope, he said Condl-
tions in cities, how to control bad
living conditions and prevent epi-
denies. how to produce vaccines and
Keep them within reach of the popu-
lation and development of cures
where the cause of a disease has been
Isolated he listed as some of the
problems of the public health service.
: Research should be pushed beyond
the underlying medical and scientific
principles until it has told how to
SET the work in hand done, he said.
, Or. V. D. LespinassS of Chicago. spe-
eialist in gland surgery, who operated
upon Harold Mccormick, was to assist
n1 opening discussion on vascular dis
eases this afternoon. DR.. LeSpinasse
bet il be known he contemplated no
formal reply to the assertions made yes
terday by DR.. c. A McWilliams of New
York. although he does not agree with
Dr. McWilianS that it is impossible
for transplanted glands to live.
1 An epidemic of injuries super
beding the past epidemic of infec-
tion," is the problem with which the
Or. ]. Howard Beard of the health
service of the University OF Illinois
Mortality Sources Created.
/ Railroad crossings, automobile ac-
eidents, exhaust gas poisonings
caused by automobiles. industrial ac-
cidentS and suicides caused by the
increased strain of living in cities are
taking the places OF the old-time
rlenaceS, he said.
( 'The suicide rate rs about that of
She whooping cough death rate" he
said. aAbout many people were
Killed in automobiles at railroad
crossings last year as died of scarlet
fever in 1920.
Fatalities resulting from auto ac-
cidents in 1928 are about the same
as those from diphtheria and scarlet
fever combined. In some of the more
sanitary cities exhaust gas from au-
tomobiles produces more deaths than
typhus bacilli.
Intelligent public sentiment, fos-
tered among employees and employers
as well as in institutions OF higher
Earning" was DIR. Boards suggestion
for coping with the new epidemic.
Opposes Easy Death"
A disagreement arose among the
cancer specialists yesterday after
noon, when Or. Evan O'Neil Kane OF
Name, Pa, advocated practicing eu-
thanasia in the cases of incura bl e
patients. He spoke on "EuthanaSla
for Inoperable Cancer Cases"
: DR.. William Held of Chicago. how
ever, took exception to DR.. kane's
assertions. explaining that eutha-
riasia in simple terms meant easy
death"
"If we should act on DR.. Kane 8
Suggestion" he said, having arro-
gated unto ourselves the divine right
to extinguish that unfathomable
something called life and should find
tomorrow that cancer is durable we
could not recall those whom we, in
cur assumed knowledge, have killed
for killing it is, and nothing else.
DR.. Kane, having to attend another
meeting, did not reply.