Evening star., 1946-02-01
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY /, 1916.
Health Survey
Aide Foresees
Model Plan
Completion Of Most
Of Report on D. c.
Expected by April

Backed by more than 90 organiza-
lions in this area, the new health
and hospital survey Of the Wash
lngton Metropolitan Health Council
is making steady progress into about
20 different fields of activity, with
that most of the survey
will be completed by early April.
This was reported yesterday by
Col. Ira v. Hiscock, head of the De-
partment of Public Health of the
Yale University school of medicine.
one Of the three surveyors in charge
of the inquiry. He addressed meet
ing of the Co-ordinating Board of
the council at the Roger Smith
Hotel.
DR.. Herbert P. Ramsey, who was
,e-elected chairman of the council,
announced that the final survey
report would be submitted to the
Council of Social Agencies, of which
the Metropolitan Health Council is
a division, and would be made public
at the time of its submission.
Forum Funds Denied.
StresSing the serious purpose of
the councils study of health and hos
pltal facilities, DR.. Ramsey warned
council members that when conclu-
sions are reached "the air, in the
words of the late Gen. Hugh john
son may be full of dead cats" He
did not amplify that remark.
DR.. Ramsey explained that the
survey is being conducted with a
fund of $4,000 allocated by the
Community War Fund. But he said
the Community Chest had continued
to deny the council funds to con-
tlnue Its health forums. He said
the health and hospital survey by
the council might well be a volume
to add to the results of the so-called
welfare survey" now under way by
the Council of Social Agencies. The
surveyors in the two separate sur
veys, he indicated, occasionally were
conferring together on problems
where interests were interrelated.
DR.. Hiscock in his talk at the
meeting declared: I'VE are en-
deavoring to provide through joint
planning between the survey staff
group, and District and county Of
flcials, and their staff representa-
tives, future plan which will be
sound in conception. and practical
for application.
Gaps in health and hospital
services seem to be more significant
than overlapping of facilities"
Emissions National Model.
He forecast that out of the sur
vey might be developed a plan of
action in the health and hospital
held that could well be a model for
metropolitan communities in the
rest of the Nation.
Maj. Gen. Paul r. Hawley. med.
ical director of the Veterans Ad-
ministration, who was elected a new
member of the Co-ordinating Boarc
of the council, was welcomed to ths
organization by DR.. Ramsey as q
valuable addition to the organiza-
ton. Gen. Hawley, in a brief re.
sponse said he was glad to serve
especially since it is the policy of
the Veterans Administration not to
consider the veterans as a separate
group from the rest of the citi-
zenry.
Housing Problem Cited.
DR.. William C. Goines of the
Medico- Chirurgical Society sug-
gested that the survey look into
the conditions of housing here as
they relate to health. He reported
colored families were being ousted
from alley homes being wiped out
in slum clearance, without suitable
places to go.
DR.. Ramsey said undoubtedly the
survey would touch on the housing
problem, but that this was not one
of the specific objectives of the
health and hospital survey.
Howard Strong, executive secre-
tary of the Health Advisory Council,
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States, was reelected vice
chairman of the council. Maj. Gen.
George F. Lull. former deputy sur
geon general of the Army, who has
moved to Chicago, was elected an
honorary board member, and these
new members of the board were
elected: Mrs. Barbara Hodges of
the National Catholic School of
Social Science. for one year; DIR.
w. L. Schafer, new health officer
of Alexandria, for two years;
Charles A. Robinson, secretary of
the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele-
phone Co., and Gen. Hawley, for
three years.
Two new members were elected
to the Executive Committee of the
Co-ordinating Board: Mrs. Henry
Grattan Doyle and Willard Smith:
and these members were reelected:
Mrs. William Carter Bowles, Miss
Gertrude Bowling. Fred Bradley.
Edmund D. Campbell, Maj. Gen
U. S. Grant III; Vice Admiral Ross
T. McIntire, DR.. Winfred Over
holser, DR.. George c. Rutland. DR.
Garnett C. Wilkinson, DR.. Ralph
C. Williams and Theodore Wiprud.