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the training of those who desire to fit them- 

 selves for careers in public-health work in its 

 various branches. The most urgent need at 

 the present time is provision for the training 

 of prospective health officials and for supple- 

 mentary and advanced courses for those al- 

 ready engaged in public health service. Satis- 

 factory completion of vs^ork in the school will 

 be suitably recognized by the bestowal of cer- 

 tificates and degrees. 



It is anticipated that mutually helpful rela- 

 tions will be established with municipal and 

 state departments of health and the federal 

 public health service, whereby opportunities 

 will be afforded for field work and other prac- 

 tical experience in various departments of 

 public health work. Especially advantageous 

 will be the relations with the International 

 Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation, 

 which is engaged in the study and control, not 

 only of hookworm, but also of malaria, yellow- 

 fever and other tropical diseases in various 

 parts of the world. 



The influence and usefulness of the school 

 of hygiene and public health will be extended 

 toward education of the public by exhibits, 

 lectures and other means in a better apprecia- 

 tion and understanding of the importance and 

 needs of public and personal hygiene, in co- 

 operative efforts for the training of public 

 health nurses, and in other directions. 



The benefits to be expected from the estab- 

 lishment of such a school as that contemplated 

 will not be measured solely by the number of 

 students trained within its walls. A far- 

 reaching influence should be exerted upon the 

 advancement of the science and the improve- 

 ment of the practise of public health, in estab- 

 lishing higher standards and better methods of 

 professional education in this field, in stimu- 

 lating the foundation of similar institutions 

 in other parts of the country, in supplying 

 teachers, and in cooperating with boards of 

 health and other medical schools. 



ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATIONS 

 IN THE STATE COLLEGES 



In the Senate of the United States on March 

 9, 1916, Mr. Newlands introduced the follow- 



ing bill, which was read twice and referred to 

 the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. 

 A Bill to establish experiment stations in engineer- 

 ing and in the other branches of the mechanic 

 arts in connection with the colleges established 

 in the several states and territories under the 

 provisions of an Act approved July second, 

 eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the Acts 

 supplementary thereto. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Bep- 

 resentatives of the United States of America in 

 Congress assembled, That in order to aid in acquir- 

 ing and diffusing among the people of the United 

 States useful and practical information on sub- 

 jects connected with engineering and the other 

 branches of the mechanic arts, and to promote the 

 scientific investigation and experiment respecting 

 the principles and applications of the mechanic 

 arts, there shall be established under the direction 

 of the land-grant college in each state or territory 

 established, or which may hereafter be established, 

 in accordance with the provisions of an Act ap- 

 proved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty- 

 two, entitled "An Act donating public lands to 

 the several states and territories which may pro- 

 vide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the 

 mechanic arts," or any of the Acts supplementary 

 to said Act, a department to be known and desig- 

 nated as an " engineering " or a " mechanic arts 

 experiment station. ' ' 



Sec. 2. That it shall be the object and duty of 

 said experiment stations to conduct original re- 

 searches, to verify experiments, and to compile data 

 in engineering and in the other branches of the me- 

 chanic arts as applied to the interests of the people 

 of the United States, and particularly of such as 

 are engaged in the industries; also to conduct re- 

 searches, investigations and experiments in connec- 

 tion with the production, transportation, extrac- 

 tion and manufacture of substances utilized in the 

 application of engineering and of other branches of 

 the mechanic arts to industrial pursuits; water 

 supplies as to potability and economic distribution; 

 sewage purification and its ultimate inoffensive dis- 

 posal; economic disposal of urban and manufac- 

 turing wastes; flood protection; architecture; road 

 building; engineering problems connected with 

 transportation, manufacturing and public utilities, 

 and such other researches or experiments bearing 

 directly on the various industries and occupations 

 of the people of the United States as may in each 

 case be deemed advisable, having due regard to 

 the varying conditions, resources and needs of the 

 people of the respective states and territories. 



