A VERY PRACTICAL DEPARTMENT.
This department of the League is presided over by Dr. Ludwik Rajchmann, a Pole. Its objects are to advise the League on all international problems of public health, to establish closer relations between the health services of various countries and to act as a clearing house and co-ordinating centre for everything that affects the physical well-being of the peoples of the earth. It is the most " practical," and the least political of the branches of the Geneva Secretariat. In the whole systematic attempt to reorganize international relations so that the knowledge gained by one shall be available to all, there are no activities so immediately and so obviously useful (and none more free from the rivalries of flags and frontiers) than those directed to achieving better health. Whatever obstacles of prejudice and feeble faith other depart- ments of the Secretariat may have encountered—disarmament, for instance, can only keep step with the diffident advance of public opinion—there has never been any objection, except lack of money, to the prevention and control of disease.
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