health. For example, one third of the patients are
tuberculous, one third neuropsyxhiatric, and taking
care of the tuberculous and psychiatric among nearly
five millions of our population will meet two of the
nation's important health problems. Furthermore, it
is hoped that many of the hospitals will become
centres for the development of better means for
the cure and prevention of disease.
That group Clomipramine 50 Mg of communicable diseases known as
the venereal diseases has Anafranil Clomipramine for centuries been an un-
solved problem, the grave importance of which has
been brought to the attention of the general public
as a result of our entrance into the war. He is in-
deed an optimist who imagines that this very Clomipramine Buy serious
problem has been overcome or even that the com-
plete solution of it has been found, but I am con-
vinced that it is to be best found in teaching the
dangers of the diseases and in religious, moral and
ethical training, rather than in coercive legislation
alone, though proper legislation and its enforce-
ment are necessary adjuncts.
There are other serious questions which affect
the health, efficiency and welfare of the nation,
such as malaria, typhoid fever, and general rural
sanitation, child hygiene, and industrial diseases,
which can be met Clomipramine Anafranil efficiently by a cooperation of the
Federal, state and local authorities. It will be well
to consider the main Federal governmental agency
interested in and responsible for disease prevention
in the United States and its relation to state Clomipramine Hydrochloride Tablets and
local agencies.
The United States Public Health Service has been
Iniilt up on the old Marine Hospital Service. For
over a hundred years it has been growing. Dur-
ing that time Congress has imposed one duty after
another until now it practically has all of the author-
ity of law to protect the health of the Clomipramine Hydrochloride nation which
under the Constitution can be granted Clomipramine Ocd to any Federal
agency. If it had annual appropriations commen-
surate with the authority granted, the country could
expect dividend returns in the way of disease pre-
vention that would be astounding. Even now it
has an organization and funds which are the equal
of any national health agency in the world. Begin-
ning in 1798 with a fund obtained by assessing each
sailor of our merchant marine twenty cents a month,
it will spend this fiscal year for health work over
$2,400,000 in addition to over $17,000,000 on its
hospital relief work for the War Risk Insurance
patients and other beneficiaries of the Service.
During the war the President Buy Clomipramine Online constituted the
Service a part of the military forces and its Clomipramine For Ocd war
record is one achievement to be proud of. It de-
tailed officers to the Army and Navy, maintained
sanitary zones about the camps and cantonments of
the Army and had supervision over the health of
many large war industries.
Within the boundaries of the camps themselves
the Army health authorities were responsible for
proper hygienic conditions. In the extracanton-
ment zones the Public Health Service, in cooperation
with State and local health authorities, was re-
sponsible. Aided by funds from the American Red
Cross and local authorities, the Public Health Serv-
ice established complete health organizations in
fifty-one extracantonment zones. In all, the Public
Health Service expended $1,201,909, the American
October 23, 192D.]
CUMMIXG: NATIONAL HEALTH PROBLEMS.
611
Red Cross $507,000, and the States and local au-
thorities, $650,000. The civil population protected
])>• these organizations was approximately three and
tiiree quarter million persons, in addition to the
jiiilitary population.
It is not possible in a paper of this kind to enu-
merate all of the work done, but to illustrate : Two
thousand five hundred miles of ditches were dug
and 1,200 square miles of swamp territory Buy Clomipramine drained,
and an antimosquito zone — one mile Clomipramine 25mg Clomipramine Tablets in width — was
established around each camp. It is a well known
fact that malaria, which was a serious potential Clomipramine 50mg
■disability factor about many of these camps, was
practically eliminated from Clomipramine 10 Mg the soldier population,
and only 3,160 cases were Clomipramine 20mg reported to the Public
Health Service during the malaria season of 1918
among the civil population of three and three quar-
ter million, a rate of eighty-three in 100,000. From
such data as were obtainable for previous years
this was a tremendous reduction in the malarial
rate in these communities. These results may well
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