WHERE MONEY MIGHT BE A CURSE.

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 40, 16 August 1921, Page 2

WHERE MONEY MIGHT BE A CURSE.

Air. G. E. Vincent, in reply: "The difference between the scientific mind and the, lay mind is,that the. scientific mind is always open and never closed. The lay mind likes to jump to conclusions. It is in a scientific spirit that I venture to suggest tentative' conclusions of our experience. We are impressed with the fact that the public health is a unified thing. While it might be divided into tropical medicine, after all the public health is the essential, and the one outstanding thing is the health of the public, and that has to be dealt with in a large, comprehensive, and statesmanlike manner. Our great concern has been to apply the knowledge ' gained on a lar^e scale, and for i this reason we have to ascertain J what the problems of administration are, and to see what things, theoretically admirable, have to be modified when applied in the mass. We realise that the application of what scientific knowledge we have is an extremely important thing. In these matters men are vastly more important than money. Unless there are well-trained people to concentrate on the work, money might be a curse instead of a blessing, and we have often been in a position of having more money jthan people who could wisely utilise it. Therefore, at the John Hopkins Uni,versity a school has been established which has prospered so well that we are promised a full complement' of students in the next-two or three years. There, is also to be organised a school of public health administrators in connection, with Harvard University.. But while research is essential to alt progress, the work is greatly assisted by practical experience'in the field." '