Show purpose and value of public health next to the immediate needs ot of boua and shelter there is no matter oll ol greater importance to the individual or to the public at large than health on it depends the individuals happiness as well as the efficiency of work whether he will be an asset to the community or a liability to the society of which he urnis a part the health of many individuals becomes the health of a people it may be said that the effectiveness of a whole people in their work of development of the resources on which they live in their ability to enjoy life as well as aa their power of reproduction and continuation of the line of progress depends on health on account of this health is very much a concern of the public at large it is a matter of public welfare public health advisory committee to the state planning board there can be no dou douat ic that the prosperity and future stability of any state depends anthe on the health of its citizens success in these mod rn days depends as a rule on education the foundation of education is laid in the days of youth ability to acquire education depends on the health of those receiving it and finally the health of the youth and the public as a whole depends on general knowledge of what is not conductive to public welfare dr W H hartung dir lector ector of the ohio state department of health nothing is better worth paying for than public health there is no more profitable form of conservation than saving and prolonging human life and no more abominable wastes than those caused by preventable sickness and premature death charles W eliot no subject is more intimately connected with the happiness and prosperity of a people than the degree of public health that they enjoy lemuel shattuck in his message to congress in 1929 president hoover made the following statement the advance in scientific discovery as to disease and health impose new considerations upon us the nation as a whole is vitally interested te in the health of all the people in protection from spread of contagious disease in the relation of physical and mental disabilities to criminality and in the economic and moral advancement which is fundamentally associated with sound body and mind the organization of preventive measures and health education in its personal application is the province of public health service such organization should be as universal as public education its support is a proper burden upon the taxpayer tt cannot be organized with success either in its sanitary or educational phases except under public au tho dhority thorl rity ty it should be based upon local and state responsibility I 1 consider that the federal government has an obligation of contribution to the establishment of such agencies president roosevelt entertains essentially the same views and ideals as is evidenced by numerous statements he has made and especially ally by his sponsorship of the public health provisions of the social security act VERLE BAKER morgan county nurse |