The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-07-25
n. D. HEALTH GROUPS
WILL Be ASSEMBLED
With DEPARTMENT
Or. Whittemore's Force Is Nov.
ing Into Final Quarters in
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College Building
DR.. ROLLER GOING 10 FORKS
Biologist TO Be Succeeded by
Dr.. Ecklund;R Rockefeller
Cash to Aid Sanitation

The state health department moves
for the sixth time in six years Friday.
This time. however. the moving IS but
shift Of the personnel Of Is from
the front Of the lower floor Of the
College building to the permanent
quarters in the mid and rear section
Of the first story. There . regroup-
ing At state health activities will take
place. 'i~NEMO(
Carpenters, p~lasterers and painters
have been at work q month in the
building. cutting the floor into sew
eral offices for the bureaus Of the
department. . big workroorh, q library
supply and vault rooms. Offices have
been built in for DR.. A. A. White
more. commissioner OF health: DR.. J.
p. Jungman, head Of the bureau Of
preventable diseases; Dr.. A. L.
Bavone. state sanitary engineer: DR..
Maysil Williams, head Of the bureau
Of child hygiene.
With the shift into the new quar-
tiers with their hardwood floors and
office convenienccs. the real work Of
the departments official year. which
opened July l. begins. Heretofore
since the evacuation of the Eltinge
theater offices about the beginning
OF June. the department has been
held up in any efforts at going full
speed ahead by the confusion of NOV
ing and the unsettled character Of its
quarters.
DR.. Williams Gets Scholarship
With the resumption of full activ-
tiles Miss Myrtle G. Lee, the nurse,
has returned from her nine month
Johns Hopkins scholarship studies
and IS taking up her work again.
The department.. however, will lose
the services Of Or. Maysil williams
for II months. While in Minneap-
oils last week, DR.. Whittemore. head
Of the department, arranged with DR.
John A. Farrell, executive director OF
the Rockefeller foundation, for q
scholarship for her at Harvard and
she win spend eight months there
In child hygiene research work. Two
months more will be devoted in visit
ing health departments and studying
their methods In child hygiene work
The Rockefeller foundation Is fl
nancing DR.. williams studies.
An important concession gained
from the Rockefeller foundation, In
addition. ~ IN appropriation OF
$500 for the work of the state sani-
tary engineer. A. L. Bavone, who 4,
supplied to the state by the founda.
ton without expense other than thu
q of q S~tcnO4rAnher.
naYones4 Work Mu2fiplies
The foundation Is doing this be.
cause the sanitary engineers bureau
Is becoming the busiest part Of the
department. There are calls from al
over the state for DR.. Bavone's serv.
ices on water, sewerage and milk
On each trip on any Of these activ.
tiles he goes prepared to deal with
other subjects Of his bureau and ir
thin way. is enabled to cover much
more territory than otherwise would
be possible for him.
Or. Bavone and DR.. J. d. Jungman
OF the bureau OF preventable diseases
now are on . tour of the southwest
ern section Of the state, the epidemic
logist planning q protective campaign
against any new outbreak of diph.
iberia when schools reopen in Sep.
TENDER. jamestown and several other
centers carried an old epidemic OF
the disease far into the summer and
the contagion has not all been sup.
pressed.
Dr.. Bavone Is investigating water
ana sewerage conditions and examin-
Ing water used In interstate traffic
on the railroads on this trip; which
VIII extend over 10 days.
DR.. Grove to Join Groups
When the department moves into
It's new offices, the old quarters n
the front Of the College building, viii
Oe made e for Dr.. w. r. Crewe
state veterinarian. and the STATE
biological laboratory. DR.. Crewe still
y IN an office In the Eltinge build.
Ing. while the biological laboratory
Is IN the rear OF the city bank build.
ing. This will bring all the depart
ments Of sanitary, medical and
biological character together except
the state food department, which /,
IN the building Of the Bank Of North
Dakota a block away.
With these changes also will 20 q
change In the biological laboratory,
Or. w. 8. Roller will be transferred
TO the main laboratory at Grand
FORKS as assistant to DR.. H. E. French,
dean Of the university school Of medi-
cine. ana DR.. A. w. Ecklund, of st,
Aiexius hospital, will succeed him in
the laboratory as biologist. chemist
and serologist.