IS DUE NOT ONLY TO THE OF A PARTICULAR SERVICE VISION OF THE PERSON CONSERVING IT, BUT TO CERTAIN TRAITS OF CHARACTER NECESSARY TO CARRY IT THROUGH, DESPITE THE MANY ADVERSITIES INHERENT IN THE BIRTH OF SUCH A SERVICE. IT WAS DOCTOR MESSNER WHO WAS SOLELY ORGANIZATION OF THE DENTAL RESPONSIBLE FOR THE OFFICERS INTO A COMMISSIONED BENEFIT TO THE CORPS. WITH THE THOUGHT OF THE ULTIMATE HIS NEW MATERIAL INTO A CONCRETE AND INTEGRAL PART OF THE SERVICE ITSELF. AGAIN, IT WAS DENTISTRY IN THE HIS SANE AND BROAD VIEW OF THE PLACE OF PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE WHICH LED HIM, BEYOND THE SINGLE CONCEPTION OF A SPLENDIDLY ORGANIZED DENTAL SERVICE IN THE MARINE HOSPITALS, TO DEVELOP THE FIELD OF DENTISTRY IN RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH. TO DENTISTRY, HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND HIS CONTRIBUTIONS BOTH THROUGH THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE AND THROUGH THE AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION, ARE A BETTER SUMMATION OF THE MAN THAT CAN BE WRITTEN IN WORDS. HIMSELF THAN ANY DESCRIPTION ALWAYS FOUNDED ON FIRM, PRACTICAL RIED THE IMAGINATION OF A PIONEER. GROUNDS, THEY STILL CAR --L. R. THOMPSON 56 GEORGIA PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE SUMMER COURSE FOR MEDICAL PROFESSION AND LAITY STARTS JUNE 15 The support of an enlightened public and medical profession has been the foundation of the achievements of Public Health in this country. The provisions of the Social Security Act for the expansion of public health services in the States have given new signifi cance to a long-expressed attitude of individual concern for community health among thoughtful citizens and physicians. To foster this interest, and to provide information about the widening frontiers of public health, the Public Health Service, in cooperation with the Georgia Department of Public Health and the Medical Association of Georgia, will this summer conduct the Georgia Public Health Institute. The program is the outgrowth of a series of informal conferences between the Office of Public Health Education, ir. James Paullin, President of the Medical Association of Georgia and Dr. T. F. Abercrombie, Georgia's Director of Public Health. The project received the enthusiastic approval and support of Surgeon General Parran in March, and details were worked out under the sympathetic guidance of Assistant Surgeon General L. R. Thompson. The Institute will provide a series of postgraduate lectures for doctors in the ten Congressional districts of Georgia, with talks for the laity given concurrently. Lectures will be given in Rome, Atlanta, Cornelia, Athens, Milledgeville, La Grange, Americus, Albany, Waycross, and Savannah. In these communities physicians from surrounding and adjccent counties will be invited to attend afternoon lectures on selected subjects. Public talks on the same subjects will be given in the morning. July, 1936 Stressing the importance of public health measures, and demonstrating new and approved methods which can be utilized by the average doctor in the carly. detection and prevention of disease, the Institute seeks to bring to Georgia physicians expert opinion in the fields of pediatrics, obstetrics, cancer, prophylactic inoculations, heart disease, and venereal disease. The group of experts assembled by the Service for the task of instructing the physicians and giving public lectures includes: Dr. Joseph E. Waring, member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, of Charleston, S. C., Dr. Harold Morgan, obstetrician from the staff of the Children's Bureau, Washington, D.C., Dr. Everett L. Bishop, of the Steiner Cancer Clinic, Atlanta, Ga.; Dr. T. F. Sellers, Director of the Georgia State Laboratories, Dr. Harry Gold, New York heart specialist, and Assistant Surgeon J. R. Heller of the Division Venereal Discase Investigations, U. S. Public Health Service. of Lecturers have been organized in two teams. The first team includes Dr. Waring, Dr. Morgan, and Dr. Bishop; the second is composed of Dr. Sellers, Dr. Gold, and Dr. Heller. Beginning Monday, Monday, June 15, at 11 a.m., the first team will give talks of from twenty to thirty minutes duration to the laity. In the afternoon, instructors will meet for a considerably longer session with the doctors of the community. The course begins at Rome, Georgia, and each week day morning thereafter (excepting Saturday) Saturday) the first team will lecture in a different community, until June 26. On Monday, June 22, the second team will follow the same itinerary, completing the Institute Savannah on Friday, July 3. Er. Paullin, commenting upon the completion of plans for the Public Health Institute stated: "Dr. Abercrombie and I have been extremely interested in pro moting this type of instruction in the State this summer, because we have felt that such a move would begin to lay the groundwork for a more comprehensive form of service which the Health Department the Medical Association of Georgia would undertake in the future, following the analysis and the accumulation of data which we hope to have available from the schedules obtained in the rural districts of this State during the recent Chronic Disease Survey, conducted in connection with the National Health Inventory." Extension courses in the prevention of maternal mortality for physicians in rural Maryland, under the auspices of the Maryland Bureau of Child Hygiene and the University of Maryland Medical School, and a similar experiment in medical edu cation conducted in Tennessee by the Commonwealth Fund of New York, through the faculty of the Medical Department of Vanderbilt University, have met with favor. The Georgia Public Health Institute, conducted by the United States Public Health Service, under the auspices of a State Medical society and a State department of public health is of especial significance since it is the first educational activity of its kind to provide health instruction for the layman, coincidental with the parent professional course. THE SARANAC LAKE STUDY AND CRAFT GUILD MEDICINE, PSYCHOLOGY, AND EDUCATION BROUGHT TOGETHER IN A CONSTRUCTIVE READJUSTMENT PROJECT Winter snows of 1935-36 were still deep on the hills encircling the village of Lake Placid, when physicians, psychol ogists and educators joined hands in cre ating a new service for tuberculous pa tients fighting their way back to health in the Adirondacks. The Saranac Lake Study and Craft Guild is a community organization for education under medical supervision. Its purpose is to aid the physician in preserving in the patient a wholesome personality fitting him to return to normal life. Physicians have long recognized that one of the most difficult problems in the management of the tuberculous patient is to adjust him to the environment of the sanitorium during treatment, and then to readjust him to his normal environ ment before he is sent back. When the tuberculous patient learns that he must enter a sanitorium for an indeterminate period, he inevitably suf fers psychic shock, in varying degrees. of severity. It is evidenced by mental of depression during the first stages treatment. Rest, of course, is the paramount factor in the treatment of tuberculosis; but the mind will not The patient finds that he must adjust to a situation appalling and incredible to him. Egoism shuts him round like a wall rising between him and the outside world. It is in this stage that serious psychoses may develop. rest. July, 186 Corporation of New York helped to make the program possible. No patient is allowed active participation without the permission and recommendation of his physician. Preferably, participation in Guild studies will be the doctor's prescription. Since needs and abilities of patients vary widely, cach application is considered, individually and the progress of each student is carefully followed. Unguided and unintegrated activities could defeat their own ends, and delay recovery, rather than speed the patient on his way forward. While a special effort is made to draw patients into the Guild as teachers, leaders, assistants and students, Guild facilities are open to the entire community. Sick and well meet on an equal footing. Many physicians believe that the sense of difference from the rest of the world is over-emphasized by complete segregation of the tuberculous. When permitted to engage in educational and recreational pursuits with well people, the tuberculous patient recovers his self-esteem through the discovery this sense of difference is more apparent than real. A healthy perspective is regained, and the tuberculous finds himself again living in the world which has seemed for so long beyond his reach. an Organization of the Saranac Lake Guild includes a Board of Directors, Executive Committee, an Executive Director, a Psychologist, a Secretary and Volunteer Assistants. Although the project is only a few months old, it has attracted the interest and active cooperation of national and community agencies. Community interest has not been confined to talk. The Saranac Laboratory, the local radio station, the local newspaper, and the Board of Education of Lake Placid have all made concrete contime, and personal tributions in space, assistance. The National Tuberculosis Association has assigned a full-time psychologist to the Saranac Lake Study and Craft Guild. Psychometric tests and interviews are given to patients desiring to enter the Guild, for the purpose of ensuring occupational and readjustment guidance. The Boston School of Occupational Therapy is actively cooperating. A trained therapist has been assigned to the Guild for the development of therapy projects. are The National American Council on Radio, the Columbia Broadcasting System, and the National Broadcasting Company cooperating in the development of scripts and adaptations to be broadcast over the local station. The purpose of the radio activities of the Guild is to reach the bed patient, as well as to provide an outlet of self-expression for convalescent students. Teaching material in the curriculum of the Guild studies is provided by the University of Nebraska Home Study Courses and the Massachusetts State Department Education, while many publishing houses are cooperating in outlining reading courses. Class and tutorial instruction arc offered in the following subjects: American literature, English literature, review English grammar, English for foreigners, short story writing, elementary and advanced French, German and Spanish, chemistry, biology, bacteriology, history and political science, shorthand, typewriting, bookkeeping. and business practice, drawing and painting, bridge, chess, and stamp collecting. Dramatic and camera clubs have been formed. Leadership in all but two of these various departments is drawn from the The patient and ex-patient population. curriculum has been suited to the expressed desires of the patients, as revealed in a preliminary survey. In struction is generally based upon the discussion method, giving the participants full opportunity for self-expression while pursuing a definite educational objective. Close observation is maintained to insure maximum benefit to the physical and mental condition of the tuberculous students. Physicians are kept in contact with the activities of their patients. Thus, in the Saranac Lake Study and Craft Guild, medicine, psychology, and education are brought together in a constructive project for the treatment of the personality as a whole. INSTITUTE OF HEALTH COURSE FOR OFFICERS OPENS JUNE 15 With the completion of Dr. W. H. Frost's series of lectures on Epidemiology, the 1936 Class of Commissioned Officers1 turns from the study of Public Health Administration, Community Health, Sanitation, Medical Sociology, and the Management of Epidemics, to an intensive course of training in Laboratory Technic, Demonstrations, and the Control of Communicable Diseases. Monday, June 15, the Class reported at the National Institute of Health, Washington, D. C. Here, for the next seven weeks, the will see "young commissioned officers" and hear, at first hand, how pioneer research, carried on by the Service, is accomplished. Here, they will be given practical instruction in laboratory procedures whereby science patiently tracks the causes of disease and develops therapeutic and preventive measures. Officers and technicians of the Institute who will instruct the class include Dr. Leake, Dr. McCoy, Dr. Francis, Dr. Harrison, Dr. Armstrong, Dr. Workman, Dr. Voegtlin, Dr. Dyer, Dr. Evans, Dr. Bengtson, Dr. Turner, Dr. Detre, Dr. Hud son, Dr. Sebrell, Dr. Elvove, Dr. Veldee, Dr. Lillie, Dr. Stimson, Dr. M. I. Smith, Dr. Pakchanian, Dr. Hall, Mr. Millar, Mr. Sockrider, Mr. Probey, and Miss Parrott. The opening address of address of the course was given by Dr. R. E. Dyer, Assistant Director of the National Institute of Ilealth. A detailed list of the remainder of the sessions follows: SUBJECT Preparation of Culture Media (7)2 Biologic Control Antitoxin Testing (2) Standardization of Arsenicals Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Staphylococci (2) Interrelation of Medicine and Nutritional Studies and Demonstrations (3) General Chemistry (3) Poliomyelitis and Smallpox (2) Pathology (8) Amebic Dysentery and Plague Post vaccination Complications Medical Zoology (4 morning lec- Wasserman-Kahn Demonstrations (8) SPEAKER Mr. Millar Dr. Workman Mr. Sockrider Dr. Voegtlin Dr. Evans Dr. Dyer Dr. Bengtson Dr. Francis Dr. Francis Dr. Harrison Dr. Turner Dr. Detre Dr. Hudson Dr. Sebrell Dr. Elvove Dr. Veldee Dr. Leake Dr. McCoy Dr. Lillie Dr. McCoy Dr. Armstrong Dr. Armstrong Mr. M. I. Smith Dr. Pakchanian Dr. Hall |