THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL; PORTLAND. THURSDAY EVENING. AUOUST 6, 1908.
PRQTECTIOn
FOR HEALTH
Committee Urges Consolida
tion Into One Bureau o
All National Agencies for
Promotion of th. Tublic
Health.
By FREDERIC J. HAS KIN,
(Copyright. 108. by Frederic J. Haakln.)
Washington, D. C, Aug. 8. There
are 2,000,000 preventable deaths oc
currlng among the people of the
United States every year. If this
number could be lessened enough to
lengthen the span of the average life
only five yars, the economic gain
therefrom, would amount to $800,
000,000 a year. The American Asso
ciation for the Advancement of
Science would cut down the death
rate and extend the span of life, and
is just now laboring earnestly In that
direction, and with every assurance
of success. Through Its committee
of one hundred on national health
a committee which is practically a
roster' of the one hundred leading
eplrlts of American progress It Is
waging a campaign which seems cer
tain to result In as much govern
mental interest in the human being
as Is already shown In the hog,
horses, Bheep and cattle.
This committee Is urging the con
solidation Into one bureau of all the
national agencies for the promotion of
the public health, to be administered by
a man eminent In the science of pre
ventive medicine. Already It has se
cured the endorsement of the president
to Its alms, and Its emissaries came
awav from Chicago and Denver with
planks In the Republican and Demo
cratic platforms favoring the establish
ment of such a bureau. The Independ
ence league has followed suit, so that
no mntter who Is elected In November
the committee of Sn. hundred will win.
It Is prohnblo that congressional ac
tion will take the form of a law estab
lishing a department of health, whose
had shall be a member of the cabinet.
That io what the committee of one
hundred desires and what it is seeking
to secure. When anyone comes forward
with the objection that such a course
is paternal In its nature, he Is met
with the reply that no line of govern
mental activity could be more paternal
in its nature than the department of
agriculture, and that notwithstanding
this fact no branch of the government
service has yielded better returns for
the money put into it than this one.
Not long ago the committee on expendi
tures In. the agricultural department
from the house of representatives asked
Secretary Wilson to furtllsh them with
an estimate of the value of the depart
ment to the people of the United Btates.
Takine onlv such farm progress as ev
erybody admits has been due to the
work of the department, he foilnd that
they aggregated the enormous total of
f 232.00O.O00. The committee of one hun
dred believes that what the department
of agriculture has done for the uplift
of the farm, a department of health
could do for the health of the people,
Work or Department.
The work of the department of agrl
culture is educational. Its duty Is to
reach out to the individual farmer and
show him what to no and how to do It
in a way that will yield greater re
turns to him and the nation. It has
been a slow work. It began in 1839
when congress appropriated money for
getting new and rare seeds for the
farmers of the country. It has done
wonders, but It has made little more
than a beginning. When every farmer
In the country substitutes science for
main strength and brains for muscle
the aggregate annual contribution to
the national wealth will be nearer $20,-
000.000 than 18.000,000, is at Is today.
So It will be with the work of the pro
posed department of health. Its final
success would be measured by how com
pletolv It reached every one of the 80,-
000,000 people In the United States and
CHARGES OFFICER
WITH BRUTALITY
Servant Girl Takes Poison
"on Having Her Dead'
. fast Resurrected.
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San Francisco, Aug;. . As she was
being rushed to the hospital early to
day after taking- a deadly dose of
strychnine with suicidal Intent, Claire
Parage, a maid employed at a fashion
able apartment house, told a pitiful
story of having been assaulted by Po
liceman M.- E. Dowell, and as a result
the police commissioners are today
making an Investigation Into Powell's
actions.
The girl declared that the officer en
tered her room at the apartment house
and insulted .her. She said he had
threatened to reveal Information to her
employers concerning: her past llfe and
that she wua helplessly In his power.
After telling her story, the girl lost
consciousness and now lies on a cot at
the hospital unable to add further (re
tails to the story.
I'ollcenian Uowell declares mat ne
was sent bv a superior officer to Inves
tigate the girl ana. trial ne entered ner
room to put her under arrest, wnen
she learned of his, purpose, he says, she
seized the poison and tooK it Dei ore ne
oould prevent the act.
enlisted their cooperation In the pre
vention of disease. Its aim would be to
reach the homes of the people, teaching
them how to be scientifically clean, how
to have sanitary surroundings and how
to maintain good health.
Today there are at least three bureaus
In the government working toward one
and the same end the health of the
people. But they are working independ
ently of one another and there Is much
Uraveling over the same road, and much
tteedless expenditure oi money. Each
Ins contributed great service to the
lubllc health: each has rendered great
ad In educating the people in the pro
tection of their own health and that of
trnlr neighbors. Likewise, each has
contributed its quota to the creation of
the public sentiment which has re
sulted In the passage of such beneficent
measures as the national quarantine
law, the pure food law and the rrjeat in
spection law. But had they been work
ing as one harmonious whole the re
sults accomplished might have been
even more valuable to the people and to
the nation. This Is the Hew the com
mittee of one hundred takes, at any
rate, and which leads it to advocate
their consolidation.
Sr. Wyman'a Bureau.
One of these bureaus In the public
health and marine hospital service, of
which Dr. Walter Wyman is the head.
This bureau Is already accomplishing
many things In the direction of the
alms of the committee of one hundred.
Dr. Wyman has been the leading spirit
in the promulgation of international
health regulations, and has reduced the
dangers of the importation of contag
ious diseases to a minimum. His bu
reau has made many investigations as
to the spread of contagion, and at all
times Is ready to cooperate with state
boards of health In finding and eradi
cating the causes of epidemics occurring
within states. Its recommendations as
to the future are of peculiar interest
as showing what lines of activity gov
ernmental medicine Is likely to follow
In the years to come.
One of these relates to lyphoid fever
and proposes that federal regulations
be adopted to prevent its spread. Last
year a passenger vessel on the Great
flakes discharged a large number of
typhoid cases at a number of porta. At
one port there were 12 cane discharged
In 10 weeks and tt was estimated that
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the total number of cases contracted
on this vessel was 77. investigations
show that other vessels have been sim
ilarly Infected, and that railroad trains
may be responsible for many cases of
contagious disease by , reason of care
lessness in the handling of water and
Ice for drinking purposes.
TvltUj Streams.
A recommendation is made for the
prevention of the pollution of streams
which cross state lines. The bureau Is
working toward the i education of the
masses In the rnatterof pure water and
uncontaminated milk. It ,flnds Us op
portunities for accomplishing this se
verely limited by the refusal of con
rr,a, tn mnk, tha necesRflrv anDronrla
tlons for a broader dissemination of the
In format on It has gathered
In addition to the Dureau or puDiic
health and marine hospital service, a
nortlon of the work of the bureau of
animal Industry would probably, be tak
en from the department of agriculture
nd assigned to the new oepartmeni.
This bureau has to do with meat In
spection and the investigation or muic
upplle. It nas rouna mat one or inn
first thlnrs to he done to nrotect the
national health la to properly guard the
milk supply. Last year It investigated
the dairies supplying the city of Wash-
ngton and rouna tnat me average rm-iiH-
of the whole list was only 45 points
out Of a possible 100. It found that 20
er cent or ine cows iurtunnini mh
nirtnn milk have tuberculosis, vet It ex
presses the belief that the-condition of
the dairies supplying Washington Is as
good as that or tne average city.
Bureau, of Chemistry.
Another bureau which would undoubt
edly be added to the new department is
the huroau of chemistry, now a part of
the department of agriculture. This is
Dr. Wiley's famous bureau, the home
of "the poison squad." This bureau has
been a great governmental Influence In
spreading the gospel of pure food among
the people. Dr. Wiley has been dubbed
a crank by unbelievers, but the work
of his bureau goes on Just the same.
His poison squad experiments have been
unique, but at the same time they have
been the most thorough experiments
ever made by any government, and
many valuable lessons have been learned
from thera. JJ?e uerman government
had made some experiments along the
same lines, but when Dr. wuey visit
ed Berlin to learn about these he found
them, whoilv" out- of keeping with the
reputation of German chemists for
thorough and exhaustive Investigation,
so he came back and went through the
whole work hlmseir.
His experiments have demonstrated
that manv harmful preservatives were
used in food and have resulted In the
prohibition of the use of borax, salycilio
acid, sulphuric acid and formaldehyde
for such purposes. The bureau of chem
istry has done much In determining
what constitutes harmful preservatives,
in determining the relative nutritive
values of food, and In educating the
masses against adulterated food, yet
there Is even more to do. It Is ex
pected that with all of these govern
mental bureaus consolidated and their
energies allied In one grand effort to
master the secrets of public health and
teach these secrets to the people, the
United Stateo will outdistance all other
nations In contributing to the nealth and
well being of mankind.
Enlars-ed Power.
" The enactment of a law consolidating
these bureaus probably would carry
with It enlarged power and greater ap
propriations :n order that the proposed
department could carrv the Investiga
tion of the question of publlo health
further unrl enforce Its findings wher
ever Interstate health is concerned. The
Republican pjatrorm oeciares: "we
commend the efforts designed to secure
ri-itr efficiency in national dudhc
hAnlfi arenclea and favor such legis
lation as will effect this purpose." The
Democratic platform says: We advo
cate the ors-anlsatlon of all existing na
tions! public health agencies Into a na
tional health bureau, which shall nave
power over sanitary conditions connect
ed with factories, mines, tenements.
child labor and such other eunjects as
are properly within the Jurisdiction of
the federal Government and do not In
terfere with state control of public
health agencies."
Tf thn nronosed denartment profits by
the example of the department of agri
culture and reaches out to uplift the
ndlvldual. It pronnmy win oe ante ne-
fr.ro n o-eneratlon has passed away to
bring about health conditions of which
our fathers never areameu. iiri ana
disease go hand In hand. The gospel
of health Is personal and public cleanli
ness. The next session or congress
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CAPTAIN IBM
PIES SUDDEflLY
Pioneer in Alaskan Trade
Helped Himself and the
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Pan Francisco, Aug. 6. Keen regret
was expressed In local shipping circles
today over the sudden death of Cap
tain Gustav Nlebaum, president of the
Alaska Commercial company, who ex
pired of heart failure at his home in
this city last night.
Captain Niebaum has been a prom
inent figure In Pacific coast trade for
many years. In the early days of
Alaska's development he spent most of
his time there, perfecting the remark
able series of supply posts along the
Yukon and on the coast from St.
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early gold seekers and packers. Until
the Klondike rush began, the Alaska
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Long before the company was or
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this that led the organizers of the
company to seek his partnership.
Captain Nlebaum was 66 years of age
and a native of Finland.
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Fridav only, $1.60 port or sherry wlno
75 cents per gallon. $3.60 whiskey,
$2.76 per gallon. National Wine Co.,
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OAKLAND POLICE DIG
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Oakland, Cal., Aug. 6. The Oakland
police are today holding Charles F.
Brown, alias Charles ThomDHon. on a
charge of vagrancy and claim they have
one of the most remarkable cases of
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hvde on record.
They say that as Charles Brown the
man was known as a steady and Indus
trious carpenter who lived - with his
wife.
As Charles Thompson, they allege, he
was known to an entirely different set
of acquaintances as the consort of a
woman named Kate Roe, who bors him
two children. The police claim that
Thompson posed as a vagrant when he
was living with the Roe woman ana
often asked charitable societies for aid.
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Large line 1908 Seneca Plate Cameras, ebony finished.
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Wooden Tripods big showing $1.00 to $7.50
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RHEUMATISM!
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Sheriff Stevens and SIrronje.
Sheriff Stevens will see whether Sir
ronje can escape from a patent straight
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asme slvle of straight Jacket that other
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