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Show PRESIDENT'S PHYSICIAN TO PROBE Dr. C. E. Sawyer Will Formulate Suggestions for Conserving Public Health and Welfare WASHINGTON, March 9. j Dr. C. E. Sawyer, nominated nom-inated today by President liar-ding liar-ding to be White House physician physi-cian with the rank of brigadier general in the army medical reserve corps, also will make an Investigation of public health matters for Mr. Harding. Hard-ing. Ha will be authorised to formulate formu-late suggestions for a concrete plan of coordination of government agenciea for sofsguardlng public welfare. This was disclosed today In a statement state-ment issued at the White Houaa. The assignment of Dr. Sawyer to this work waa taken as tha first step by President Presi-dent Harding to carry out. his previous announced plan for the creation of a new governmental department of pub-llo pub-llo works. WANTS SURVEY. "President Harding," said the White House statement, "has long sinoe been convinced that the affairs relating to public welfare, such aa public health, education and social Justice, are so intimately in-timately related and so vital to the nation'a perpetuity, that he had decided de-cided to begin at once a careful survey of ail matters pertaining to then subjects. sub-jects. That there may be no delay, he has nominated Dr. Charles E. Sawyer of Marion, O., a man of long and practical prac-tical experience In such matters, to a brigadier generaloy In the medical section sec-tion of the officers' reserve corps of the United States army and thereby securing; the service of Dr. Sawyer as physician at the White House when professional attendance Is necessary, but also giving to him direct authority to make a thorough investigation of the needs of these subjects and to present pre-sent the accumulated farts with such suggestions as his observations may warrant in the bringing about of a concrete plan of coordination and most efficient and economic operation of these affairs. Dr. Sawyer's duties axe to begin immediately. "During the war Dr. Sawyer served in the medical section of the council of national defense, spending a year in Washington." |