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In the second place, this hygienic force would effect 

 an administrative health organization throughout the 

 World. Each country would be subdivided into sani- 

 tary districts, while the nations themselves would be 

 brought into a unified administrative system under 

 central control. Thus stationed throughout the world 

 would be health officers with their technical experts and 

 subordinates all organized into a hierarchy under single 

 authoritative control. Under such a military regime 

 sanitation, control of epidemics, regulation of individual 

 conduct in the interests of health would be in force with 

 all the efficiency which characterized the success of pre- 

 ventive measures in Cuba and the Panama Canal Zone. 



In the third place, through such an organization as 

 toas been described, there would be centralization of 

 vital statistics accurate and trustworthy conclusions 

 based upon the reports of competent diagnosticians per- 

 forming their duties in an objective way uninfluenced 

 by economic and social considerations. These statistics 

 constantly gathered and interpreted by experts, would 

 guide the organization and conduct of health campaigns 

 in various parts of the world to meet situations as they 

 were revealed by the statistical data. The appearance 

 of an epidemic would be instantly reported to head- 

 quarters and orders would issue at once to apply meas- 

 ures which would insure the prompt control of the 

 threatened outbreak. Outposts and barriers against 

 epidemics would be established and held in readiness for 

 emergencies. Gradually the foci of diseases would be 

 circumscribed until finally these sources of danger 

 would be eliminated. 



