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Poor Health Forced: Among the last photographs Stieglitz made (poor health forced him to abandon using the Camera around 1937) were pictures of New York taken from high windows, and the meadows and trees around the old family house at Lake George, where he spent his summers. He continued all the while to champion modern art: at An American Place, his New York gallery, he continued the series of painting exhibitions, along with occasional photographic shows, up until his death in 1946. Stieglitz TO always there, and from him many a young person found counsel and direction.
In 1968 the Public Health Service was reorganized into three separate health agencies: the Health Services and Mental Health Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Consumer Protection and Environmental Health -Service, including the Food and Drug Administration, one of the agencies originally transferred into the Federal Security Agency in 1939. These three health agencies are directed by the assistant secretary for health and scientific affairs, who is aided by the surgeon general of the Public Health Service.
The result was to leave plenty of good causes for more radical reformers to espouse. Humanitarians had already won great victories—most notably in the abolition of slavery in 1833 and in the regulation of conditions of female and child labor in factories. More doctrinaire reformers, particularly the followers of Jeremy Bentham (q.v.), known as "utilitarians," had won other victories. They forced acceptance of the representative principle in new local authorities for administering the poor law, public health, and municipal government and stimulated public action to prevent the spread of cholera. |
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