To sum up, these are some few of Pittsburgh's immediate needs, if it is to fight its battle successfully for fewer deaths and a better living product:
Autonomy of the official health authorities (preferably a department of health, not a bureau) under the executive and administrative control of a physician or sanitarian.
A tuberculosis hospital for advanced cases which are now spreading infection throughout the city. More visiting nurses and more sanitary inspectors. Eventually a hospital for the incipient cases that can be saved.
Municipal collection and disposal of the rubbish which accumulates everywhere, seriously hampering efforts to make the city hygienically clean and which must now be removed at private expense.
A general hospital of sufficient size, proper equipment, and adequate surroundings.
Some reasonable division and co-ordination of effort on the part of the private hospitals.
Authority to condemn and destroy unsanitary buildings.
Authority to condemn and destroy, upon its entrance to the city, or upon discovery within the city limits, unclean, infected, or adulterated milk, and to refuse and revoke milk licenses. Establishment of a standard for milk.
Medical inspection of schools and school children.
Medical and sanitary inspection of hospitals, and of all public or semi-public chartered institutions.