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Show I I Congress and the National Department of Health. Senators tire awaking to tho importance of federal health activity. While Sonatar Owen's bill to establish a national Department De-partment of Health did not pass this session of Congress, the amount; of educational work which tho bill has accomplished is incalculable. Its hearings brought out some of tho country's coun-try's foremost sanitarians, statisticians stat-isticians and scientists to speak in its favor. The "National Longue for Modical Freedom," opposing the Owen bill, made littlo ultimate impression on the Public Health Committee of the Senate. Why the Peoplo of tho United States Should Have a Department, De-partment, of Health. II. To stop the spread of typhoid ty-phoid fever through drinking sewage-polluted water of interstate inter-state streams. 2. To enforce adequato Quarantine Quar-antine regulations, so as to keep out of the county plague and other similar pestilences. To supervise interstate common carriers, in so far as without such supervision they prove a menace to the health of tho traveling public 4. To have a central organization organiz-ation of such dignity and importance, im-portance, that departments of health of states and cities will seek its co-operation and will pay heed to advise. 0. To gather accurate data ,pn all questions of sanitation " 'throughout the United States. (5. To ascertain the chiof causes of preventablo disease and unnecessary ill-health. 7. To study conditions and causes of diseases recurring in different parts of the United States. 8. To correlate aud assist investigations in-vestigations carried on hi many separate and unrelated biological biologi-cal and pathological federal, state and private laboratories. 9. To consolidate an co-ordinate the many separate Gov- I eminent bureaus now engaged in independent health work. "10. To effect economies in tho administration of these bureaus. 11. To publish and distribute throughout tho country bulletins bulle-tins in relation to human health. 12. To apply our existing knowledge of hygiene to our living conditions. 13. To reduco the death-rate. |