Evening star., 1937-12-11
Pictures on Page A-13.)
BY GARNETT d. HORNER.

BY GARNETT d. HORNER.
Assignment of two veteran officers
of the United States Public Health
Service to conduct the hospital and
tuberculosis phases of the general
Federal survey of District health prob
lens was announced today by Asst.
Surg. Gen. Robert Olesen.
DR.. Olesen said DR.. F. C. Smith,
formerly head of the Hospital Division
of the Public Health Service and now
in charge of the services marine hos
pital at Norfolk, Va, will come here
Monday to make the special study of
hospital facilities and needs in the
District.
DR.. Albert E Russell, one of the
Public Health Service officers sta
toned in Washington, who has made
numerous surveys in other parts Of the
country on the problem of tubercu-
losis control, will conduct that phase
of the general study here.
DR.. Olesen, who was named by
Surg. Gen. Thomas Parran to super
wise the survey of health conditions
here on request of the District Com
missioners, said he considered it ex-
tremely fortunate that DR.. Smith was
able to join the staff of experts who
will conduct the study.
GalIinger to Be Studied.
The hospital study will be directed
primarily toward conditions at Gal
linger Municipal Hospital and is ex-
pected to result in definite recommen-
dations for improvements there. 1t
will include, however, survey of
all the hospital facilities in the Dis
trict, both private and public institu-
tions, with view toward determining
whether these facilities are adequate
and what might be necessary to fit
these facilities to the Districts needs.
DR.. Smith and DR.. Russell will work
IN close cooperation to coordinate
their studies of the hospital and tu-
berculosis needs, particularly of the
facilities at the municipal Glen Dale
tuberculosis Sanatorium, DR.. Olesen
said.
DR.. Russell will study the adequacy
OF all facilities for the control of tu-
berculosis here, including the hospital
facilities at Gallinger and Glenn Dale,
clinics and educational preventive
programs.
He will size up the situation, show
what progress has been made and
what might be needed for further
progress" DR.. Olesen said. DR.. Rus
sell, surgeon on the Public Health
Service staff, joined the service in
1924. He was born in Arkansas in
1894.
Joined Service in 1903.
DIR. Smith, born in Wisconsin In
1874, Joined the Public Health Serv-
ice in 1903. During his "a years with
the service, he has gained wide ex-
perience in hospital problems. Until
he went to Norfolk as head of the
Marine Hospital there about three
years ago, he was stationed in WASH
ington for about 10 years in charge of
the division of hospitals of the Public
Health Service, which operates 26
marine hospitals for treatment of
merchant marine seamen.
DR.. Olesen also announced the as
signment of Miss Mary Dunn, re-
gional public health nursing consult
ant, to conduct a study of public
health nursing facilities in the Dis
trict in connection with the general
survey.
This completes the survey staff, DR..
CleSen said, except for designation of
some one to specially investigate the
mental hygiene problem This phase
was added to the general survey at
request of the Health Committee of
the Council of Social Agencies, after
an address this week by DR.. Winfred
Overholser, superintendent of st.
Elizabeth's Hospital. DR.. Overholser
urged liberalization of the laws relat-
ing to commitment of insane persons
TO hospitals.
Other experts to make special
studies of venereal disease, infant
and child health, sanitary engineer
ing, health education, death and dis
ease rates, laboratory and other
phases of the general health situation