The Labor Statesman
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-01-31
issued: 1938-08
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note: **?1J"'' TOUCH UNION THE POUTICAL PARTY OF HIS CHOKE or Statesman SUPPORTED BY SIXTY-TWO LOCAL UNIONS m ■NUMBER 478. VANCOUVER, CANADA, AUGUST. 1938 PRICE: S CENTS |J. S. Big Health Program Critidzed by "Doctors Trust" iBy Albert H. Jenkins in "Ubor") One of th. moot far-reaching oves of the New Deal got under By recently when 175 delegates to e Nation*! Health Conference met Washington beard a report th.t host of the American people are miring from lick of medical care, and three days discussed a .weeping ogr.m for prevention .nd cure of Ickness. The conference wa. called at the .estion of President Roosevelt, he report snd program were pre- .red by nil Interdepartmental Com- littee on Health and Medical Can. Ine purpose of the conference wai b get recommendation, and criti- usms from th. delegate, who won loctors, public health officers, social nd weltar. worken, and represent- itives of farm and labor organis- Itions. Aroiuiag Nation Another purpose wai to lay th. Iealth .nd medical service problem efore the entire country, in the ope th.t thousands ot plain people >ho know their needs at flnt hand 'ill send suggestions to Roosevelt. The chairmaa of the conference I as Josephine Reohe, who, as former -sistant Secretary of the Treasury, id supervision over ' the Public ealth Service. She ha. a nation- id. reputation as . humanitarian nd also as a remarkably successful usiness executive, I The vast slse of the proposed pro- am was revealed by Hiss Roche, ho estimated its cost at 8850,000,- )0 a year, probably paid 60-60 by nele Sam and state and local gov- nments. The "tentative" program laid be- firc the delegate! included: Sis-point Plan 1. Expansion of public health trvices especially for control of uberculosis, venereal diseases, pneu- ponia, cancer, mental diseases, in- ustrial hasards, and disease preven- |on in rural are... 2. More medical care for mothen ^id babies, . , r.-..,__ _-.„„_.. Hon and better hospital, espec- tlly in rural regions. 4. Medical care…
note: Title changes in chronological order: The Labor Statesman (1924-04-25 to 1965-03), The Labour Statesman (1965-05 to 1969-09). From 1924-04-25 to 1965-03 The Labour Statesman was owned and published by the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1965-05 to 1967-07 it was published jointly by the B.C. Federation of Labour and the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1967-08 to 1969-09 it was published by the B.C. Federation of Labour.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0439267
language: English
lat: 49.246292
long: -123.116226
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver and District Labour Council
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