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The meeting also favored a state law to put a minimum of 35,000 people under local health units. The resolution is contained in the report of a special legislative committee on public health of the Massachusetts legislature. Dr. Hugh R. Leavell, professor of Public Health, chaired the meeting.
Representatives of 50 Massachusetts colleges and citizens' organizations will hold a meeting to discuss health legislation at the Medical School at 2 p.m. today. Dr. Hugh R. Leavell, professor of Public Health Practice, will lead the forum after speeches by government health experts.
Careful examination of the successes and failures of the British "womb to tomb" health insurance plan was recommended by Leavell for the development of a health insurance system of our own.
President Truman's proposal for federal pre-paid health insurance would fulfill an important need in the nation's present health system, according to Dr. William L. Aycock, assistant professor of Preventive Medicine and Dr. Hugh Leavell, professor of Public Health.
As chief health officer for the city of Louisville, Kentucky, Dr. Leavell's double barreled campaign on the academic plane throughout the backwoods country departments built up an outstanding center for the teaching of preventive medicine.