The authority to investigate these same matters is likewise vested in the Public Health Service by the act approved August 1.4. 1912 (37 Stat.. 309). which broadly covers the entire -field under the term "diseases of man.". As previously indicated in another connection. the function now under discussion is exercised by the Childrens Bureau in a popular sense rather than from a medical or scientific vlewpoint. butthe means of attaining the respective ends necessarily lie along the same lines. and. as In the case of the contact between the Public Health Service and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. and between the latter and the Childrens Bureau. there should be absolute and positive means of preventing harmful overlapping of effort. and securing to all concerned the benefit of cooperative work In a movement which. up to a certain point. occupies a common field of investigation. Still another relationship of the Public Health Service to the Departnient of Labor is found in the work of medical inspection of aliefis under the immigration laws (act approved Feb. 20. 1907. 34 Stat.. 898. sec. 17). The Secretary proceeds to give instances of duplication after duplication in the work of the department. Now. the Health Service. which is under the Treasury Department. is doing this work. and issuing the same kind of pamphlets.
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