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Description: Health Bureau Page 9
Date: January 2 1908Newspaper published in: Washington, D. C., USA
Washington Times January 2, 1908 Health Bureau Page 9
HEALTH BUREAU URGED BY SCIENCE
Advancement of Science Association Has President’s Endorsement of Plan.
Chicago, Jan. 2 - A national bureau of health for the regulation of the people’s physical welfare, planned by the leading specialists of the country and approved by President ROOSEVELT, was urged at today’s session of the American Assocaation [sp.] for the Advancement of Science.
The ultimate reduction of the death rate in America by one-half is to be the aim of the new bureau, which may take its place in the Federal departments of Government through the efforts of the association.
“The advantage of a national bureau of health over State bureaus,” said Prof. Irving FISHER, the Yale University economist and head of the committee of 100 having the matter in charge, “would be the power to deal with interstate and international questions of health, such as the questions of quarantine already dealt with by the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service and the question of pollution of rivers which flow between different States. For instance, the Ohio river has typhoid fever at many points. The water supply of New York comes from different States, and the milk supply from five, with little adequate power on the part of health officers to control the character of products.”