President Hoover, attempting to estimate the national charity which will be needed next winter (see p. 8), last week announced: "There is a test, and a very positive test by which the success of [relief] can be determined. That is, the effect of distress upon public health. I have some years of experience in dealing with problems of distress and relief, and we have always tested the efficacy of relief by the reflex in public health."
He had called on the chief of the nation's health army, Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming, for the...
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