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for the unemployed in construction OF
the center.
Karl Corby, head of the Board OF
Trustees Of Emergency Hospital, heads
committee of citizens organized by
Allen to consider the plan. The
group will meet in Aliens office al
II am. Wednesday.
The plan proposes creation of the
center to serve as testing laboratory
for the growing needs of society in
adequate medical care at reasonable
cost and development Of newer con-
ceptS of community medicine. with
emphasis on preventative care for the
people, Allen said.
Washington is one of the few capi-
tails Of the world which does not
possess excellent facilities for medi-
cal care and medical education, "
Allen declared. In all the other
major capitals such facilities exist.
The District has provided such facil-
tiles as it possesses with little or no
assistance from outside sources, and
these facilities are now, for the most
part. antiquated and qualitatively in
adequate for these modern times. Still
our local institutions represent COM
munity assets which would be of great
value in development Of this plan.
1T is proposed that the present
existing hospitals. retaining their en-
titles as organizations, with their OWL
boards of directors, come together in
the new medical center under q joint
board Of administration. The plar
would involve the construction of ar
entirely new hospital plant with the
assignment of definite functions o,
service to the several units. Each
unit would retain its present name
If it so desires, and its present ad-
ministration organization.
Endowments Retained.
Special assets in the form Of en-
dowments, etc, would remain with
each organization and subject to the
authority of each individual admin
istrative board. The joint board, with
proper representation from each in
dividual unit, would determine the
policy for the medical center and act
as the co-ordinating body for the
entire group.
In addition to the several hospitals,
the medical center should include q
medical school with its divisions of
undergraduate studies, post graduate
medicine, hygiene and public health
and tropical medicine"
Allen proposed that the center have
a system of cooperation with the
Public Health Service. the District
Health Department and various agen-
cies of the Federal Government. 1t
Is proposed that the undergraduate
division of the center's school OF
medicine undertake a new plan for
training of physicians in both cura-
tive and preventive medicine. Dental
care also would be part OF the pro-
posed training courses.
Members of Committee.
Members of the committee are:
Capt. Chester Wells, chairman OF
the board of directors, Columbia Hos
pital; Rev. Calvert E. Buck, secretary,
Executive Committee, Episcopal Eye,
Ear and Throat Hospital; Mrs. Joshua
Evans, jr., member of the board OF
trustees, George Washington Univer-
sity; o. H. Perry johnson, chairman
of the board of directors, Children's
Hospital; William s. Corby, chairman
of the board of directors, Garfield
Memorial Hospital; Sister Margaret,
chairman of the board Of directors.
Providence Hospital; Father David
McCauley, regent Of the Medical and
Dental Schools, Georgetown Uniyer-
sity. 4.
DR.. j. b. Gregg Gusts, chairman OF
the board of directors, National
Homeopathic Hospital; Samuel III.
Rogers, chairman of the board Of di-
rectors, Casualty Hospital; Rev. ]. @.
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