December 22, 1919

 

Dr, Frankel,
Third Vice President,

In reply to your memorandum of December Sth, I
strongly recommend that the schedule prepared by us be kept in
preference te another and shorter questionnaire as you suggest.
Our schedule was prepared with great care and covers only the
essential facts of health administration, I am afraid that our
Superintendents would not be able alone te fill out satisfactorily
any questionnaire which would have any real value, My suggestion
is to keep the questionnaire, to send it to Superintendents with a
request that they get in touch with the health authorities and,
working together, have the form completed,

; This precedure would have the advantage that the
technical part, te which you evidently objected, would be filled
out by those who would be competent te do so, that the Superin-
tendents would be interested in the procedure and would get in
touch with the health officers, many of whom have not had an
occasion to do so, Finally, such cooperation with the health
officers would make the answer to the important last question
very valuable,

If we succeed in putting this across, we will have
the most complete infcrmation, with regard te public health,
existing in the United States, and an important contribution
could then be made on the present state of American public health
administration and what it most needs, We are in an excellent
position to carry out such an investigation and I cannot urge you
too strongly to do it,

GSROESKRHS OR MR SRR RRR ero RS

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