Excerpt from Health in Handcuffs IN A broad sense, this book is based on more than a decade of research by the best qualified experts in the nation. The factual studies upon which I have drawn are embodied in hundreds of volumes; they have cost millions of dollars to compile. It has been my privilege for over thirty years to be intimately associated with the public health movement which has culminated in this decade of intensive research into the health of the nation. I look back with great satisfaction at the part I have had in promoting and securing financial support for some of the most im portant of these studies. Indeed, several of the basic projects were con ceived and initiated by the staff of the Milbank Memorial Fund during the years when I was executive officer of the Fund. As I have reviewed the material of these studies in the preparation of this book, I have realized as never before how important for society has been the public health movement of the past three decades. This movement now has a glowing vitality and it has attained such propor tions as to give cause for great hopefulness. The National Health Pro gram, developed under the leadership and encouragement of President Roosevelt, is now receiving attention throughout the nation. The Pro gram is embodied in Senator Wagner's Health Bill. Just prior to the adjournment of Congress, August 5, 1939, this proposed legislation te ceived general endorsement in a preliminary report filed by a Senate Committee in charge of this Bill. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.