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Show a aa niMa aaa aaamaaaManiiaiii 1 Better Federal Supervision of Public 91 Health Advocated Under tho plan proposed by Miss Susanna Cocroft, of Chicago ,who Is taking the lead In a big national health movement to bo launched thla fall, there will bo freo laboratories throughout the country whero expert ' tests can bo mado lit tho suppression of disease. Tho plan also contemplates contem-plates tho preparation of health bulletins bul-letins written in language tho people can understand. Miss Cocroft, well known for ypurn as u leader in tho movement for better bet-ter health, particularly for women, declares that It is a shoino that tho government pays moro attention to tho health of Its hogs than It does to tho health of Its children. Millions of dollars and years of experimentation ex-perimentation by government expert Iibh resulted In scrums and othor treatment for sick nnlmalB ond Unci-.' Sam will oven send Inspectors to glvo export ndvlco on animals, but If n poor mother has a sick child, Bho Is without help from tho government. To provldo a remedy for this condition condi-tion which Miss Cocroft regards ns a dlsgraco on our government, she proposes n plan for wider federal supervision su-pervision of health. Sho has not gone so far as to suggest ft formal depatt-mehl depatt-mehl of health, but she assorts that tho present public lienlth servlco Is n restricted thut It Is not nblo to servo the pcoplo directly except in such cases ns tho guarding of our H shores from contngiou diseases audi assistance In tho suppression of opt? HI dcmlcs, fK. Tho main idea of tho plan Is thnt ijH tho pcoplo shall havo the beneltt of fsiH tho best expert ndvico tho govern- H ment can provldo, with laboratories H whero physicians can have tests mado H to determine diagnoses nnd danger- H ous diseases. This will In no wny H Infringe on tho work or tho physlcl- H ons, tho author of the plan rfnys. H slrtco it Is not intended to provide- H freo medical service, but rathor to- H help tho physician In bin work thru H tho establishment of laboratories to H which ho can hnvo easy access. Thin H would bo of particular value to tho H country districts where physlclanK H usually havo to send away and wait H for tests. Under Miss Cocroft's plan H these tests would be nvallablo Itumo- H dlately. H Miss Cocroft has conferred wltli W Surgeon General Blue, nnd Senator H Rnnsdell, chalrmnn of tho 1'ubllc M Henlth Committee, and others high jH In public health matters nnd she pro- jH posed to lnstltuto a big campaign jH nmong 00,000 women who nro her H personal followers, this fnll. H |