Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-12
WALKER OUTLINES
PLANS FOR HEALTH
|. SURVEY IN CAPITAL
Community Chest Grants
Social Agencies Council
$4,000 for Project.
HOSPITAL ADEQUACY
WILL BE GONE INTO
Main Detectives Cover Fact-Getting
and Accusing Interest Where
Action Is Needed.

General plans for an extensive sur
vey Of hospital and health facilities
here, with the needs of each, to be
undertaken by the American Public
Health Association for the Washington
Council of Social Agencies, were out
lined by DR.. William F. Walker, field
director of the association, at lunch
con meeting of the council in the Y.
w. C. A. Building, Seventeenth and K
streets, yesterday afternoon.
The survey, scheduled to begin De-
cember l, is expected to take about
two and one-half months. AT the re-
quest of the Washington Council Of
Social Agencies, the Washington Com
munity Chest is granting it a special
appropriation of $4,000 for conducting
the survey. This sum comes from the
contingent fund of the chest.
Declaring in effect that surveys Of
cities are the fashion of today" DR..
Walker said that although such sur
veys may be "a passing fancy" they
furnish means for conducting hospital
and health programs along scientific
lines. The survey, he said, will be
made in a cooperative spirit with the
member organizations of the Washing
ton Council of Social Agencies, the
various other welfare groups In the
City anu ObtlcE C1tl1cuo.
Experts to Be Used.
DR.. Walker said that five or six ex-
pertS will be employed at various times
during the survey and that a hundred
or hundred and fifty volunteer work.
erS will be required to assist in the
work. For the purpose of the survey
there will be set up an executive COM
mittee of nine persons, which will serve
h<1r1xy Fovax - n
ried on by various subcommittee.
Among the principal things to be
studied, coming under four general
heads, are: General health, health or
welfare service carried on by either
public or private agencies, adequacy of
hospitals and internal administration of
hospitals.
Describing the general objects of such
a health survey, DR.. Walker said it has
three main detectives. namely: The ed
ucational phase, or that of gathering
facts. arousing interest in the health ia
cilities and programs, and to get action
where needed through the proper ere.
ating of interest.
Phases to Be Considered.
Among the various phases OF health
operations to be considered In the SUR
vey proper will be such as follows: Work
done by various agencies, including de-
tails of that done by public and private
or volunteer groups; expenses in acute
and convaleScent cases in hospitals, with
q detailed study of various problems of
administration of hospital affairs and
how they are worked out.
Toward the close of his address DR..
Walker declared:
you have greater need for a. survey
in Washington than in any other city,
You are in way people without a
country" He then asserted that such q
survey as proposed is needed to accu-
rately show the health, hospital and
other needs In the District.
Yesterdays meeting of the council
was presided over by DR.. Paul Preble,
chairman Of its health committee, after
the meeting had been called to order
by Willard C. Smith, president of the
council.
The council voted to take steps to
incorporate upon recommendation of
the executive committee. which reached
such decision at former meeting.
The council also voted to elect to
membership in the council the Hebrew
Home for the Aged, the Jewish Welfare
Federation and the United Hebrew Re-
lief Association upon the recommended
ton or the executive committee, which
previously had voted favorably upon the
latter.