The Last Plague by Mark Osborne Humphries

Author:Mark Osborne Humphries [Humphries, Mark Osborne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HIS006000, MED039000, MED078000, MED022090
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Published: 2012-04-14T16:00:00+00:00

A Dominion Bureau should ‘think’ for the nation in the matter of health. Canada has been waking up to the need of knowing more about health, about sanitation and housing and their relation to health; and a score or more things that might be roughly classified under ‘public welfare’ but so far this work has mainly been done in the provinces … But Canada should have a Dominion bureau of health; it has asked for it, and perhaps nothing would bring the need of it home so forcefully as a little plain ‘thinking.’64

In this functionalist analysis, the nation was understood as an organic whole in which the central government formed the brain – evidence of the degree to which medical and reformers’ ideas had penetrated the non-specialist imagination. Health could no more be left to the provinces than could any other aspect of national life. In war the state had proven that it was capable of efficient intervention in the lives of Canadians in the pursuit of centralized goals; the application of these same powers would be necessary to restore the nation to health in the postwar period and to address the human costs of conflict. Read an editorial in the Hamilton Herald:

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