INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH 

 BY GEORGE E. VINCENT, PH.D. 



President of the Rockefeller Foundation, New York City 



IF THE hygienic control of the world were put in the 

 hands of some superman with scientific knowledge 

 and authoritative powers it is possible to imagine 

 the way in which he would organize his forces and carry 

 out his task. First of all he would not rest content 

 with the scientific resources in his possession, but would 

 provide for continuous investigation in order to re- 

 examine constantly the knowledge already acquired 

 and to add new information. He would fit up well- 

 equipped and competently manned centres for investi- 

 gation. These institutions he would place in strategic 

 positions throughout the world in such a way as to 

 bring the widest variety of diseases under constant 

 scrutiny. He would further see to it that the staffs of 

 these research centres were in constant communication 

 so that duplication of effort would be avoided and the 

 results secured in one place put quickly at the disposal 

 of workers in all the other institutions. In this way he 

 would organize medical research as a world activity, 

 constantly recruiting his groups of investigators and 

 producing steadily new knowledge about the nature, 

 cure, and especially the prevention of the maladies 

 which afflict mankind. 



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