6. To act as a clearing house of
state and local health regulations
and to codify the same.
7. To draw up a model -scheme of
sanitary legislations for the asist
ance of state and municipal. health
officers.
8. To establish the chief causes
of preventable diseases and unneces
sary ill health.
10.% To', study conditions and
causes^or diseases recurring in dif
ferent parts of the United States.
-11. To correlate and assist inves
ligations carried on in many separate
and unrelated diological and patho
logical laboratories, public and pri
vate.^ -j*."
12V1 To consolidate and co-ordin
ate the many separate- government
bureaus now engaged in-independent
work.
1 3 on in he ad
ministration of these bureaus.
-,14. To publishg and distribute
health bulletins.
15..- To, apply existing knowledge
of hygiene to actual- Jiving condi-:
tions..
16..-: To cut in two" the' present
death rate in the United States, as
the authorities agree might be. done.
There are plenty of reason®,, ob
viously, why a federal .department of
health should be created. Its field fqr
useful .work Is incalculable, aild thp
lack of it means a -wicked waste ip
the work now being ^done? Whlc|i
eduld, be oterewne by ^oraejating ail
tem and di^tira i|ii wnon rdb-
vi i^.i)atg^8»i»
Will BUILD HOUSES
SHORT TIME.
ju
WITHIN
Inventor Edison' Will Construct
Dwelline Places in a Verv
Few Hours.
The following interview with Thos.
Edison, published in one of the
Eastern papers in which his newly
invented cement house is described,
interesting reading.
