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Show IMPROVED HEALTH EMELSTO MEET Standardization Conference Will Begin With Session This Afternoon. "The war has taught Americans that they can enjoy better health through the attention' of the surgeon and the doctor," Dr. John G. Bowman of Chicago, director of the American collc-ge of surgeons, said yesterday. Dr. Bowman arrived in &alt Lake yesterday with the Rev. C. B. Mou-linier. Mou-linier. president of the Ca.tholic Hospital association, and regent of Marquette University Uni-versity School of Medicine at Milwaukee. Both "men are members of the national committee on the standardization of hospitals, hos-pitals, and are taking part in a campaign being conducted by the American college of, surgeons for the improvement of hospitals hos-pitals in United states and Canada. A hospital standardization conference al which Dr. Bowman and Father Moulin ier will speak, will to held at tho Hotel Utah today. The first session, at which hospital executives, ex-ecutives, trustees and sisters in Catho.ic hospitals will be present, will take placo at 2 p. m. today. The evening meeting to .which doctors and the general public are invited, will be held at S o'clock tonight. to-night. There are 7000 hospitals in the United Siates, many of which wure organized solely as places where rest and nourishing food could be obtained by the sick, according ac-cording to Dr." Bowman. Hospitals also must be able to supply the highest order of medical n ttfnticn. he said. The national na-tional commit to j on sta ndi-.rdization has asked that all hospitals organize staffs carefully and have regular meetings in the fullest spirit ot co-operation; have up-to-date laboratory service, with skilled technicians tech-nicians and pathologists as the basis of diagnosis, a nd keep careful, systematic records of each patient. Dr. Bowman ai.d Father Moulinier will inspect the hospitals of the west, southwest south-west .and northwest, in an endeavor to raise the standard of service. FellovvH of tho American college of surgeons sur-geons in Utah are: Dr. Samuel C. Baldwin, Bald-win, Dr. Fred Stauffer. Dr. A. J. Hosmer, ; Dr. John F. Critehtow, Dr. Ralph T. Kich-I Kich-I ards, and Dr. Harry X. .Mayo of Salt Lake; Dr. Robert S. Joyce and Dr. Fzra i ich of Ogdt-n, and Dr. J. W. Aird and I Dr. FredV. Taylor of Proo. I . |