THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



made that one week of each year be given 

 over in the schools to the discussion of 

 health and sanitation, this period to be 

 called a "Health Week." 



Supervision 



I may summarize these suggestions by 

 saying that every one of us carries a nat- 

 ural responsibility to develop good pub- 

 lic health. We are all under obligation to 

 see that society is effective, and it cannot 

 be effective without strong and smoothly 

 working bodies. We must develop a new 

 spirit toward the isolated and the disad- 

 vantaged man. This spirit would have 

 great results in the training of rural people. 



Government must interest itself in health 

 as well as in other social and economic 

 questions. The federal government has no 

 legal right or power to investigate human 

 diseases in any of the sovereign states, ex- 

 cept at quarantine stations, although it 

 may freely investigate the diseases of 

 chickens, cattle, and pigs. Certain sani- 

 tary questions are so important and wide- 

 spread that they become national rather 

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