is entitled: "A New Phase of the Cancer Education Undertaking Confronts the Physicians of Colorado." We quote the following significant paragraphs: "A considerable number of the members of the Women's Field Army have reported to their State Commander that they have gone to their physicians, have asked for complete examinations as they have been instructed, but for some reason their physicians failed to give them such complete examinations. The women understand that the breasts and the uterus are the most common sites of cancer in their sex, and when these organs are neither inspected nor palpated, they know that they are not being given an adequate examination. "The State Medical Society is interested in this project both from its purely scientific aspect and from the viewpoint of medical defense. No physician can afford to give care less adequate than is being given by the medical profession generally in his community. The Women's Field Army is going to see to it that its members get adequate examinations for cancer. We have no other alternative than to furnish full cooperation." For this progressive stand, the American Society for the Control of Cancer publicly commends the Colorado Medical Society, its Cancer Education Committee, and the editors of its journal, in the February issue of its Bulletin. According to the Bulletin the same situation applies to every State. THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE CONTROL OF CANCER celebrates its Twenty-fifth Anniversary on March 24-25, 1938. Prelude to the 1938 enlistment campaign for the Women's Field Army and the birthday celebration of the Society will be a series of exhibits to be displayed at Radio City, radio addresses, and meetings at which cancer experts will speak. The Public Health Service in cooperation with the Society will display a series of educational posters. VENEREAL DISEASE CONTROL CONGENITAL SYPHILIS MUST GO -- New York State has made this decision with the passage of the Twomey-Newell Bill requiring routine blood tests for syphilis of all pregnant women in that State. The bill long debated and supported by many State official and non-official organizations including the New York Post was passed March 9th and signed by Governor Lehman March 18th. All doctors and all others who attend pregnant women must make a test. This courageous attack on congenital syphilis will be watched with interest by other States. Within a very few years it should be possible to evaluate routine testing of women during pregnancy in positive terms. In New York as elsewhere the real effect of this means of control will depend to a very large degree upon the number of pregnancies which come A.M.A. ANNOUNCES FOUR NEW PAMPHLETS issued by the Bureau of Health and Public Instruction. Marihuana by George R. McCormack deals with the sources, methods of distribution, and the psychological and physiological effects of this drug. The Truth About Candy by Dr. Fishbein discusses the place candy should take in the diet. Bad Habits in Good Babies by Herman M. Jahr deals with crying, feeding difficulties, bowel control, shyness, stubbornness, self-expression, and bladder control. The fourth pamphlet is a new edition of the long popular contribution by the Doctors Jackson, (Chevalier and Chevalier L. ) entitled What Does Your Baby Put In His Mouth? The new edition has been brought up to date with new photographs and a very pleasing format. It provides a graphic lesson for mothers - The CLIMATE IN HEALTH AND DISEASE following list of publications referred to on page 538 in this issue is recommended by the Public Health Service to those interested in the study of this subject. There are many others, of course, but these are representative of the best studies made in the past as well as the more recent contributions: Petersen, William T.: The Patient and the Weather, Vol. I. Pt. 1, Edwards Bros., Ann Arbor, Mich., 1935. McKinley, E. B.: A Geography of Disease, The Smith, F. C., Climate and Tuberculosis, U.S. Ward, Robert D.: Climate: Considered Especially in relation to man, Putnam, New York, 1908. Hill, L. and Greenough, M.: Relation of Health to Atmospheric Environment, International Journal of Public Health, 2:232-240 (May-June 1921). Progress in Public Health Climatology, American Journal of Public Health, 13:575577 (July 1923) and 15:195-200 (July 1925). Ravenal, M. P.: Drought and Health, American Journal of Public Health, 21:1198-1202 (November 1931). Lloyd, Bolivar J.: Health Suggestions for Travelers in the Americas, Reprint from Boletin de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana, Publication No. 96, (August 1934). ISSUED BY TREASURY DEPARTMENT U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE OFFICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION WASHINGTON The Curative and Preventive Work of the German Workers' Insurance Scheme Social Hygiene Many a Germ 'Twixt Cup and Lip No Defense for any of Us The Rockefeller Foundation Public Health Hazards in Plumbing Mental Health Needs in Children's Institutions Preventive Measures Against Infant Mortality from Diseases of Nu- trition - - - Education has been the presumptive theme song of public health achievement these many years. During the April conferences of State, Territorial and Provincial health officials, just passed with their customary whirlwind quality, new emphasis on the need for public instruction was noted. Outstanding resolution of the State and Provincial Health Authorities was the endorsement of Life's series of pictures from the film "The Birth of a Baby." The Conference deplored The Conference deplored "the attitude of offi cials who have tried to prevent the sale of Life because of its treatment of this theme. This action in itself indicates the necessity for such public health education." The Committees on Accidents, Drug Addiction, Disaster Relief and on Milk, of the same conference, called for educational campaigns in each of these fields. In the Conference of State and Territorial Officers, Doctors Hektoen, Scheres chewsky and Simpson stressed the importance, the results, and the need for education in cancer control. But there are still no committees on public health education. The separate needs are seen. The first need for the coordination of educational activities still awaits recognition. The demand for a symphony orchestra to lead the public health march remains a song without words. No health education staff can operate efficiently, persistently and continuously on the basis of special knowledge in any single field of public health activity. The diverse needs of each "campaign" require of the health educator a wider (though not so thorough or technical) knowledge on the problems of public health than is required of the specialist. He The health educator must be all things to all health officers. must be cancer crusader for the cancer control division; syphilis fighter for the venereal disease clinic; mosquito hunter for the malaria u |