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Show HEALTH ' I ! BY UNCLE SAM, M D. Health Questions Will Be Answered An-swered If Sent to Information Bureau, U 8. Publio Heejlh fterv- ' lee, Washington, O. C. THE GOYI.RVMFVTS WAR OX VK- NKRAL DISEASES. 1 In Its peace work of trying to free the entire cation from the menace of the diseases of vice President Wilson and the members of his cabinet, the Vnitcd Btat I Public Health Service j lias undertaken, there Is no trace or I paternalism. The establishment of free clinics for the treatment of venereal diseases; the work of caring for the future of Klrls who are forced by rigid administration adminis-tration of laws to give up careers 01 shame, th" report of communicable venereal diseases to the health authorl-ttes, authorl-ttes, just as smallpox and other communicable com-municable diseases are reported; In these and other endeavore the govern- 1 ment Is moved by no sentimental ideas of paternalism H Nor Is the federal government usnr-ping usnr-ping the tosk of the reformer. Io tho suppression of prostitution, now sclcn-tlflcallv sclcn-tlflcallv recognized as the great fountain foun-tain source from which venereal dl- soasos spring, there la work for the H social reformer, the preacher, the By extensive and Intelligent work J along reform lines, these agencies may greatly aid the campaign which the WM t'nlled States Puollc Health Service is carrying "n But It must be under-stood under-stood that th- government's campaign against vice Is as coldly scientific as that carried the bubonic plague In San j Franc! CS OOhrjet rnr.zzz7zerethding WM Francisco, or the extermination of the mosquitoes in Cuba and Panama that were discovered to be carriers of yellow yel-low fever and malaria Venereal diseases di-seases must bo controlled. J |