Evening star., 1937-04-09
HEALTH OFFICERS
ADOPT PROGRAM
Trained Personnel and Aid
AllotmentS Listed Among
Objectives.

ADOPTION OF numerous recommended
tons dealing with the training of pub
lie health personnel, health aid allot-
ments under the social security act,
control of syphilis, interstate quaran-
tine regulations and other public
health problems marked the closing
sessions yesterday of the thirty-fifth
annual conference of State and terri
torial officers with the surgeon general.
The health authorities urged con-
tinuation of the present program of
training public health personnel un-
der the social security legislation and
stressed the need of financial aid for
stabllization of schools at present en-
gagged in such work.
The conference also urged regula-
tions to control the sanitation prob
lem created by the increase in the use
of trailers and recommended that
some means be effected whereby the
cost of medical care for Syphilitic and
tuberculosis transients should be borne
Jointly by the Federal Government and
the State in which the transient is
shown to have residence.
Broad Program Advocated.
Direction of syphilis control work by
separate division of each State
Health Department, under leadership
OF full-time venereal disease officer,
also was advocated. An effective con-
troll program, the conference said,
should include provision of adequate
diagnostic facilities. development of
clinical diagnosis and treatment IA
cllltieS, thorough investigation of cases,
assistance to the private physician,
informative and educational facili-
Ties, legislation to govern efficient ad-
mlnistrative procedures in the control
of venereal diseases, special attention
to the problem in urban areas and
research work.
The Federal Government should
allot funds to aid the campaign against
syphilis, the conference said.
A resolution was adopted asking that
the surgeon general promulgate regula-
tions governing distribution of health
aid funds under the social security act
to States 80 as to insure the wise and
effective use of these funds for use
full objectives by personnel especially
trained or experienced in public health
work The conference also asked that
an oral hygiene or dental health pro-
gram be established by each State
board of health.
Cooperative Work Lauded.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Josephine Roche spoke before the
medical experts at yesterday mornings
session. She said the health program
developed under the social security act
'is only bare beginning" in efforts
toward improving the physical welfare
OF the Nations population groups
She said the first full year of Fed
eral-State cooperation under the acts
special health provisions has brought
not only a realization of important
work well started, but ever keener real
izatton of how many needs and prob
lens still confront health authorities.
THAT we can in all honesty assess
the task to date as one of progress and
definite service is due in large part to
the determination of all responsible
for its execution that no administrative
problems or difficulties should be per-
mitted to drag along unsolved and de-
lay the objective so earnestly desired
by all-getting to the individual COM
munities and their people the values
of the program" she said.