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Show To Add Twenty Years to Span of Life SYRACUSE, N. Y.-The Mllbank memorial fund has set aside $2,000,000 to be spent In three typical communities la New York state to determine whether by Intensive health measures the extent of Illness In the United States can be materially diminished and the mortality mortal-ity rate further reduced, and whether these results can be obtained at a cost within reach of the average communis commu-nis In announcing the undertaking ui this' work the public Is reminded that tiany prominent physicians and public workers have expressed the belief that with the Increasing attention being be-ing given to the health of the people 20 years might be added to the span of life In America during the next CO years, Just as the average length of life during the last generation has Increased In-creased ten years, The funds of the Mllbank memorial .are being allied with local health or-ganlzatlons or-ganlzatlons with the Idea that the knowledge derived from the Intensive study made In each district may help In realizing this aim within a comparatively com-paratively brief period. The demonstrations demon-strations are regarded as of national significance and the results will be watched with Interest, It Is said, by public health offlcials throughout the country. Actual work has started In Cattaraugus county, which was selected select-ed as a typical rural district, and In Syracuse, which was chosen as the medium sized city most advantageous for the demonstrations. There still remains a metropolitan area to be selected. se-lected. It will probably be In Brooklyn Brook-lyn or In Manhattan. The purpose of the demonstrations will bo to determine which diseases more readily yield to concerted attack; at-tack; to what extent tuberculosis can be further reduced; whether the low infant mortality rate of 50 per thousand thou-sand born attained In many progressive progres-sive communities can be substituted for the rate of 100 per thousand prevailing pre-vailing In many parts of the United States, and whnt can be accomplished generally by the Intensive application of public health measures In the fields of physical, mental, social and Industrial Indus-trial hygiene. , The program for each unit calls for ! comprehensive work along all health linos In addition to speclllc tuberculosis tubercu-losis preventive measures. , The Mllbank memorial fund was established es-tablished and endowed by the late Elizabeth Mllbank Anderson, who died In 15)21, after a lifetime of furthering various educationul and social welfare projects. . |