Show I TAKING TAKING CARE OF HEALTH Addressing the th New ew York state stale l department of ot health Dr Robert RobertE RobertE E Plu kett placed emphasis on the necessity of ot every nery county hu bay hav Ing a time full health commission commIssion- commissioner er His lIla years year of ot experience had had taught him the th of ot a health unit as he h said The Tho scientific work which is being carried on toward the th elim elimination of scarlet fever feyer ma may be bethe bethe beth the means of ot giving us a a similar similar program for diphtheria and may soon make it possible for us to toBay say Bay that this disease also has ceased to be b a problem The Th tuberculosis death rate rat has been on the decline for years ears The Infant mortality rates rate have bave decreased particularly In sections where th the he public health workers have had bad an opportunity to dem- dem demonstrate demonstrate dem the th efficacy ot of a I clinical and educational work ork In the past our local health o officers have hav lave been principally emergency ncy officials When Wilen com corn communicable communicable disease became preva a prevalent Ien lent In this community community- they ther the be- be became became cam be-cam came active and when the th epi- epi epi epidemic demic subsided they ther gracefully p retired from active service Our SOur present-day present knowledg ot of the preT prevention nUon ot of o disease demands that w 1 wd have hue a different form ot of oth h alth administration The peo- peo peole Pi peo-Pi fIe le are r entitled to more thin than emergency service lien They are en en- en entitled titled titled to pro protection from every disease of ot a COmmunIcable nature the the There ire are are in the United States Statu approximately zoo SOD county hea health th departments most of ot which which are by y tull t tull fUl county health officers |