Environment and health : problems of environmental health in the United States and the Public Health Service programs which aid States and communities in their efforts to solve such problems.

  • United States Public Health Service
Date:
1951
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Credit: Environment and health : problems of environmental health in the United States and the Public Health Service programs which aid States and communities in their efforts to solve such problems. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WHILE THIS book was being written, the President declared a national emergency. For the duration of this emergency, the Public Health Service, like every other organization in our Nation, must assess all its activities in terms of their contribution toward critical national objectives. In addition to surveying the long-term prospect of improving the public well-being, it is necessary now to direct our gaze at the short-term security problems that lie immediately before us. The intensity of these problems will determine what measures that are dedicated primarily boward improving the environment must be pressed and what measures must be deferred. Many environmental changes, by improving the public health, increase the pro- ductive power of the American people and strengthen their resistance to stress. Such changes now are more desirable than ever, because American strength and production are essential to national security and world peace. Surgeon General, Public Health Service.