Show HEAL HEALTH TM UNIT N Tj SUBJECT Drs Beatty and aud Coving Coving- Coving illg Covington ton Discuss With of ol Funds Dr Platt Plait W v Covington Co n o of the lh international health board nn 0 of the Rockefeller foundation and Dr DI 1 T B D Beally Utah health commissioner Thurs Thurs- Thursday Thursday day afternoon In an Interview with rh The Standard r sr set et forth the reasons why state ana Hocke- Hocke tener feller funds went went- withdrawn from Ogden den city after the ho changes made madi m e by the new in III n me met t personnel of ot the tho health depart depart- department department ment The health unit established In they said was waa the result rt cf co operation co-operation by hy the city the count county the he state one ana the tie ter ler board The unIt termed formed here was alon along alone the lines of those e lib in n many many mate Out Out- Outside Outside Outside side funds for or health all he work woric were to tobe tobe tibe be forthcoming so long lone as certain policies were In atlon One point J strewed was hat the best ph s clan and health workers obtainable tor tot Uie he funds at af hand were vere to 10 be procured and were to tobe tobe tobe be retained as long leng as they were welo performing their duties efficiently There were HIP to ha be b no changes for tor mere political And It t hans changes were elc mold made the parties panics to the agreement ment should ou Id be consult consulted ed This public health worK worn is a anew anew anew new venture It Its Is s no easy task to get Ift men lu to tuk- tuk Ink it up ui In n view of ot the salaries as a compared to the tho income from private practice practice tice But physicians will wll take up the work If It they become Interest Interest- Interested Interested ed ed In the great field of service and andare andare are assured that their positions do donot donot donot not depend upon political fortunes Likewise e the who take lake up this work expect to have some expression as liS to o the personnel ot of their departments Now Xo consider the Ogden case A new administration takes office Those In power Immediately re- re re I move ail nil the health workers who had been assisting u Dr Ir When he shows s hov his hill objection to 10 this wholesale removal lie he himself I Is removed All these All these were made male without consulting the other par par- parties parties ties tlell to the agreement for tor the health unit Trained teen men were remo cd to be I replaced placed by hy untrained men All this is In direct contra contradiction to the policy under which out outside funds were Ie coming to the Ogden health unit unil Your city officers violated all the terms of the health unit cooperative op co-op- I agreement The arrange arrange- arrangement oP co ment under which state and Rockefeller Rocke Rocke- feller funds were corning coning to the I unit was broken Thus there was a I nothing else for us to do but with with- withdraw withdraw draw I Both noth Dr and Dr Coving Coving- Covington lon ton declared that the best minds lIon In p public health work worl have agreed that health department efficiency and politics do not mix They cit cit- cited cited cit cited ed authorities who are vigorous In declaring that a a successful stul health unit cannot be maintained when the physician In charge charie 1 le a time part part part- time department d head that head that Is when tho the physician give gives part s part of hIs time to private practice Dr ton Covington said the said the Interns Interns- International health board ot of the Rockefeller Rockefeller ler foundation was as established to spend money ney In the interests of public health h-alth There Is no wish Ish to e seek eek ek an excuse to withhold funds lunds Rather funds Rather the board seeks to put its money to 10 good rood use se It Is now seeking to help the county establish establish lish a health unit and nd the money will be forthcoming But Dul In pro pro- providing providing pro viding money for tor he health work the th o hoard insists that It j must be to Rood good ad- ad advantage ad vantage |