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In the control of the venereal diseases impetus was given to further
research by the cooperative arrangement between the Pubhc Health
Service and the committee on research in syphilis whereby an officer
of the service acts as a technical adviser in connection with a coordinated program of research in which 15 of the leading scientific
institutions in this and other countries are participating.
An act approved January 19, 1929, and authorizing the establishment of two institutions for the confinement and treatment of persons
addicted to the use of habit-forming drugs, created within the office
of the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service a new administrative division known as the narcotics division, which is charged
with the responsibffity of managing these institutions, and with the
disciplinary problems and methods of treatment for those admitted.
The need for additional medical officers in the regular corps of the
service, set forth in my report of last year, is even more pressing than a
year ago. The Department of State desires to extend to 14 places in
Canada and Mexico the work of examining prospective immigrants
at American consulates in the country of origin, before the issuance
of immigration visas, and trained medical officers for this work are
not available. The present compensation of a medical officer in
the entrance grade of assistant surgeon is attracting a gradually
decreasing number of applicants with the required educational arid
professional qualffications.
TABLET COMMEMORATING
THE
WEBSTER-ASHBURTON
TREATY
A bronze tablet commemorating the signing of the WebsterAshburton treaty, placed on the northeast corner of the Treasury
Building, was unveiled with appropriate ceremonies on April 30,
1929. The inscription on the tablet is as follows:
Friendship between the United States and ^
Canada was developed and strengthened by
the signing of the Webster-Ashburton
Treaty, on August 9, 1842, in the old State
Department Building which stood on this
site. This treaty established the northeastern boundary between the two countries.
This tablet placed by
The Kiwanis Club of Washington in cooperation with the
Committee on Marking Points of Historic Interest
April 30, 1929
The treaty was executed by Lord Ashburton (Alexander Baring),
envoy of Great Britain, and Daniel Webster, representing the Government of the United States. It defined the boundary line between
Canada and the United States as far west as the Rocky Mountains,
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REPORT ON THE FINANCES
and thus settled an international question which might have become
a cause of enmity between the two countries.
At the unveffing ceremony, Mr. O. Sam Cummings, Kiwanis international president, presented the tablet on behalf of that organization.
Response for Canada was made by Mr. Thomas A. Stone, undersecretary of the Canadian legation. Mr. John B. Hickerson, Assistant Secretary of Western European Affairs, represented the State
Department, and Undersecretary Ogden L. Mffis accepted the tablet
for the Treasury.
Attention is invited to the attached reports of the various bureaus
and divisions of the Treasury Department and to the exhibits and
tables accompanying the report on the finances.
A. ^W.
MELLON,
Secretary of the Treasury.
To
THE
SPEAKER OF THE H O U S E OF REPRESENTATIVES.
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