Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-02-08 | Page 11 | Utah Health Plans Studied

Utah Health Plans Studied The only woman commissioned officer In a United State corps on a similar basis with the army and navy came to Salt Lake City Monday Mon-day to study th state' publio health program. She I Dr. Estella FoVd Warner, surgeon of the U. 8. public health service. Her rank of surgeon was won In a competitive examination, against several hundred men, and la comparable com-parable to that of major la th army. Dr. Warner aim I to correlate public health work of state school and health official. She conferred with Dr. J. L. Jones, state health commissioner, and ChaMes H. Skid-more, Skid-more, state superintendent of public pub-lic Instruction. "Utah has mad advances In pub-lie pub-lie health work, through enlarged personnel and services," she said. "Th atat ranks very favorably with others In this field." Dr. Warner (aid ah favon placing plac-ing all public health work in the stat under the state health department de-partment a proposed In bills now before the legislature. 7! WOMAN SURGEON HOLDS UNUSUAL POSITION Dr. J. L. Jones, Dr. Estella Ford Warner