Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-05-21 | Page 13 | American Use of Preventive Medicine Gains

h 1 AMERICAN USE OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE GAINS L N purses purses' te Leader Tells NO t I of Advance in IDU Health Work J Like the old Chinese custom ii ry Americans are using the services of 01 A V doctors odors and nurses for the prevention Instead of cure of sickness according accord Ip UNI UNIT ing g to to Miss Ruth Houlton of New NewYork NewYork York City assistant director of the National Organization of Public I Health Nursing 57 conductIng conducting conduct conduct- T l Miss Houlton Tuesday was ing round table discussions of nursIng nursing nurs nurs- ing problems before fore health associations associations in Salt Sail Lake City 39 9 The official pointed out that preS preventive pre pre- S e medicine which is becoming 5 increasingly important in the United 1 States is referred to in old Chinese u th ThI 1 legends I Chinese doctors were often oCten seI severely se see I I I S eely verely penalized if it the they failed to keep 1 I their patients well she said VI I. Public health nursing and preventive lye tive medicine interrelated and 1 i k t are J will grow together in the opinion of h hll I 2 Miss Ii sS Houlton It is s generally recognized sh she J t said aid that public health nursing is isan an essential part of preventive medI medicine med med- kine S. Social security legislation and public public public pub pub- I- I lic health legislation will make the theS S field of ot the visiting nurse more im important im- im t as the years pass she as as- c f She pointed out that public health nursing functions only with medica'S medical medica S backing Miss Houlton held a round table 5 S discussion of ot nursing problems at the I Lafayette school at 1030 a. a m. m Tuesday Tues Tues- S da day and another mother for tor public health I nurses in tho the public safety building 1 at t 2 p p. p m m. S She will meet with directors and committees of the Salt Lake hike Visiting Nurse association Wednesday at 11 a. a m. m in in the chamber of commerce She will be the guest of the association association S S tion at a dinner to be given at noon The official will leave Wednesday evening for the west coast to begin arranging for the biennial convention conr convention con con con- r of the national organization I. I In Los Angeles in 1936