Committee Maps Review Of Hygiene Department

A six-man Corporation committee, appointed last fall, is reviewing the University's entire medical program and is considering sweeping changes in the Hygiene Department's policies, services and buildings.

Headed by former Corporation member and public health authority Henry L. Shattuck '01, the committee is studying proposals which include the building of a new, centrally located medical center to replace both Stillman and the present Hygiene building, a raise of the medical fee, and a increase in the medical staff.

Beyond these specific proposals the group has been attempting to find out exactly what kind of medical service the University wants for its students and also what kind of service the student wants and needs.

Distribute Questionnaire

In connection with this, the group has framed an extensive questionnaire covering all phases of the department's service. Fifty questionnaires were distributed last month by committee member Charles R. Cherington '35, professor of Government, in one of his undergraduate courses. More will be distributed this term.

The committee's questionnaire requests information as to medical services required by the student during the last two years. It polls opinion on the quality of medical services received, the quality of Stillman food, and the size of the medical fee.

The questionnaire also asks the student's views as to the extent of medical services which should be offered by the department and presents six alternative sketches of the department's services which it asks him to rate in order of preference.

Cherington reports that answers to the questionnaire are varied. Many are "furious" at the department and its services while others praise it.

Besides Shattuck and Cherington, other members of the group are Livingston Hall, vice-dean of the Faculty of Law, Stanley F. Teele, associate dean of the Business School, Dr. Herman L. Blumgart, professor of Medicine, and Dr. Hugh R. Leavell, professor of Public Health Practice.