Enforcing of Child-labor Law in Issuing Work Certificates.
For this many-sided work physicians, trained nurses, and various other helpers are required.

Could the public purse be drawn upon for a more vital public necessity than this list indicates?
When it is remembered that from forty to fifty per cent, of births are in charge of midwives in the foreign-born population and that the condition of housing and of water, air and food supply are deplorably inadequate in manufacturing centres, and that in rural communities there are few doctors and nurses and little hospital service, it will be seen that the idea of having Federal aid for this large health requirement was not one of concentration of power in the Government (as some have thought), but rather of a diffusion of standards and better sharing in all parts of our country.

The health crusade is not bounded by state lines, diseases may cross those lines without consciousness of any check.

The help toward the abolition of all preventable illness, the protection of child-life from all manner of preventable weakness, abnormality and suffering, seems to be the business of society in general, if anything can be so called.

The children must be saved if the nation is to prosper.