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TREASURY DEPARTMENT 
BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE

WASHINGTON
January 30, 1930

OFFICE OF THE SURGEON GENERAL
IN REPLYING
ADDRESS THE SURGEON GENERAL
U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE 

Dr, L. M. Waugh
576 Fifth Avenue
New York City, N. Y.

Dear Dr. Waugh:

I hope you will pardon my delay in writing to you but the fact of the matter is that the whole office has been so busy since I returned from a recent trip out west that I have not had the time to get a letter written. We are making preparations for your meeting on the night of February 5. We do not have a good meeting room in our own office building so we secured a small auditorium in another government building. I have made arrangements to get two moving picture operators as you requested and sometime on the afternoon of the 5th we can go over there and you can advise the operators just what you wish them to do. If there are any other arrangements which you wish me to take care of please advise me. 

[[margin: movie of a [[?]] movie stand [?}} stereoption [[?]] view ]]

It is needless pf me to tell you what things to stress as the program which you gave to us in New York would fit in nicely here. You will of course stress the need for dentistry in an expedition such as the Northland every year and you can so competently add the human interest story regarding the natives which makes this work so extremely essential. I would advise that you stress the fact that on such occasions the dental and medical officers do not have the privilege of conferring which attending specialists but that instead all cases of emergency must be handled  immediately. In a region one hundred or even one thousand miles away from the nearest hospital of relief station their duties often call for action of a different character than they usually encounter in the general practice of medicine and dentistry. 

[[margin: Need for dentistry a, crew [[?]] Natives - Stress human interest story - making works extremely essential.]]
 
For your own information I am glad to advise you that the appropriations committee of the House recommended quite an increase in the dental budget and the Appropriations Bill has passed the House of Representatives. We do not look for any trouble when it comes up in the Senate and therefore we feel confident that we will have quite a bit of additional money to take care of the dental needs not only in our own hospitals but for the Coast Guard as well.
[[margin: Congratulations ]]
As I told you in New York, all of the Public Health Service officers on duty there in Washington will be on hand at the meeting.