The nature of this overlapping in the same fields of endeavor is of such a character that there is pracically no .limit to the duplication and resultant likelihood of confusion. unless there is complete and harmonious adjustment of the respective activities. " Under the. terms of the statute authorizing the establishment of the Childrens Bureau (act approved Apr. 9. 1912. 37 Stat.. 70) it Is espe. cially directed to investigate the questions of infant mortality. the birth rate. dangerous occupations. and accidents and diseases of children. The authority to investigate these same matters is likewise vested in the Public Health Service by the act approved August 14. 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 viewpoint. but the 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 whiich. up to a certain point. occupies a common field of investigation. " Still another relationship of the Public Health Service to the Department of Labor Is found in the work of medical inspection of aliens under the immigration laws (act approved Feb. 20. 1907. 34 Stat.. 898. sec. 17)." That is all that was read. Senators. by the committee as a justification for striking out of the bill the appropriation for investigating infant mortality as prescribed by the law which created the bureau. I submit there is not a word in what Secretary Wilson says that justifies a construction such as has been put upon it. by the Committee on Appropriations.
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