Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-06-18 | Page 3 | Advocates National Board of Health

S NATIONAL t BOARD OF HEALTH Minneapolis Juno 17 17 Dr John A A. Itherspoon of ot Nashville Nash Tenn nc newly 13 stalled Detailed president o of the American edical association In his first annual advocated n a national board of ot health and committed tho the association o 0 the plan for or such tuch an organization Ic e ar argued for lor centralized power with withie ie to government back of oC It t to prevent pre epidemics nn and l stamp out Infectious diseases dis ases eases that are Arc common among the peo peo- lr lp- They Thc call this thiR association a medical trust rust Dr Ithel poon sol said 1 and Hand we were were re accused t of or selfish motives this motives this In he the face of or tho fact that the of or the groat leat demand we wo arc aro making for tor national recognition not f t ourselves ourselves' our ehe but of oC tho the principles of oC medicine that wo we advocate would h lessen at once the th income of or I every en physician ph In the practice of ot med med- I Rest Past In bed I Is the greatest curative o went agent a ent there thero Is in CD cases el of ot active tuber tuber- of or the lungs Jungs accord according In to a paper 1 by Dr John W. W of or Pres- Pres ott Ariz