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     Dr. FJorenrse R. S&bin, Chaimmn
      Health Gcxmitts%
     Color&do Statres Poart-#ar PlannAng Committee
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Illl.mf~ 9tatewidi4 Publio Hwdth Cmitt%% meetinfl;
  Stevens Hotel, Chicmgo, S%ptePttt%s 5, 2947

I t,;nink no one In your audl@n~e ?M.s aft%PnOon enjoyed

I had long known of It and my first infozmmt was non% other than

I&?, Carl Buck,  When h@ was making OUP summy in Colorado he

tald of your 0  ittes and what ycu h&d dorm and I r%mmber think-

lnp-3I wonder if we m&n follow in     foot8tsp8.

You iax% five ysars old.  Our law wm paessed last Naroh

80 we ami just f&v% aronthlsr old m& that is & trm%ndous gap In
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and 3 beg yau to ksep it in mind and &c&t bo surprised at

the feeblamms of ou~l px-ogress,

      !&ink of the iserasts that you had, You hab, in the

firat pla08, r& strong public health dcqxU+mmt and a very etbls

l%sder .  You h&d, E am told, a, Buvemor who was sympthetlc with
tha Zdea of publi@ health fm your state. You had also, X ~fta

told, A  yor who wasi favombfe to your progress.
     We had in Coloxtado, in the first place, just me of

tkkorse Eiasets.  Ws had & strong and abls mm at the h%Ead of ow

health d%pmtmcmt, Dr. Roy Cleere but I&% was wosfully supported



At one raeeting, in order to get the discussions going, r9 leladm
asked "tit are the legitimte iunctions of 8 fiealth d@pm+tmat?

Ifhat can 8, health department do to esta;blish an immunization

      A doctor guic=kly arose and ssid ' T knew what t;h5s
w&s &bout, its nothing but socfalized msdicine.w     (:`c`((..,; I,.;*


c   fssioner tidressed him saying: whew Jack, you&just cazm &
into this maeting and I urge you to listen bePoPe foxml,z an

opanion.  P have listened to the whole story and in my opinion


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thfs is what you ought to back a~ a buffer against socialin;&

     1 mxmmbez- In the early days when we first trained

PUbliG health offlceru n back in 1917, many of thm came back and
5isid the doctora donIt want to ham? the reportir@ of tuberculosis

and you see how it ceane about, but that has gone and with us now

the dootora are proud of this specialty within their profession
and when they cease to say 'you bills" and anstead say "our

bilSsn we knew that the idsa had been won.

     Ho biological reaction is ever lOO# and there _.B an

occasioml doctor in Colorado who is fightirq us.  One doctor?,

in answer to another doctor who was fighting the osganfzation
of county public health units, saild: "Xf we can clean up the
zI.slands in the Pacific, *;J not a city in Colorado?"

      How f want to speak of the methods that we used.

At each county meetbw, and first I will sag we brad to organLEe

the first f8W county me8tin!~s s2nGe our counties Ai?0 amall we
made them all d.kstsict meetings inviting people from adjacen!:

counties.Ths firett meetings were conductad by Dr. Buck and np~elf

epnd then wo secured a very efficient executive secretary who knew

the state of Coloaado like a book who organized the next few

ms&A.rqs.  After that we have not organized meetings o.rily cm
invitation of the people thmsekves, the FTA, AAW, all women*s

cluba, Xlwanis, Lion8 clubs, in fact allmnls clubs, and we have
had so many invitations ~~111~ of us ha.v@ spoken three and four

t%mes a day.



?3xmi; %x2 th8 8dj8eeznt county, th8 CoiBaiSS

able, but     th%y n%vm? had A nw?z4e, it was not f8vorably

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     we can't OPgtiats lLT.wzy un;tts, Aa f told you we BP0
only five sssnths old,  we have organizsd two d2art;rlets, two

ft llc3 pld?tnnad that we sand t&f!! entire atam Itnto a


X think wta should tike a leak at this problem not only

fP  the atmdpalat of health but frcna the standpoint of acmmmi~~.
There ia one point that is quite eaPnplle&ed and I think it is a

on the hoof, that represents gults a ltarge sm.


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