DR. F. W. JACKSON RETIRESSource: Canadian Journal of Public Health / Revue Canadienne de Sante'e Publique, Vol. 47, No.12 (DECEMBER 1956), pp. 528-529Published by: Canadian Public Health AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41981011 .

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Canadian Journal of Public Health EDITORIAL BOARD

R. D. Defries, M.D., d.p.h., Editor J. T. Phair, M.B., D.P.H., Associate Editor Cynthia Palmer, b.a., Editorial Assistant

J. H. Baillie, m.d., D.p.H. Gordon Bates, m.d. A. E. Berry, m.a.sc., c.e., ph.d. J. G. Cunningham, b.a., m.b., d.p.h. C. E. Dolman, m.b., ph.d., d.p.h., f.r.c.p., f.r.s.c.

Edna L. Moore, reg.n. G. D. Porter, m.b. A. H. Sellers, b.a., m.d., d.p.h.

F. O. WlSHART, M.A., M.D., D.P.H. J. WYLLIE, M.A., M.D., CH.B., B.SC., D.P.H.

DR. F. W. JACKSON RETIRES

/COMPLETING more than forty years of professional and official service, ^ Dr. F. W. Jackson, D.P.H., recognized as one of Canada's outstanding leaders in public health, has retired as Director of Health Services in the Department of National Health and Welfare. It is pleasing that he will continue his relationship with the Department in an advisory capacity.

Graduating in medicine from the University of Manitoba in 1912, he practised medicine in rural Manitoba, serving also as a part-time medical officer of health. He was with Number 5 Canadian General Hospital in Salonika, Greece, during World War I. In 1928 he entered the Provincial Department of Health and Welfare of Manitoba as director of the division of disease prevention. He received the Diploma in Public Health from the University of Toronto in 1930. From 1931 to 1948 Dr. Jackson served as deputy-minister of Health and Public Welfare. In this position, he developed the renowned Manitoba Health Plan based on the findings of a two-year sickness survey in 1938, and a survey of public health needs made in 1941 by Dr. Carl E. Buck of the American Public Health Association. This plan was introduced in 1945 and it was due to his vision and untiring efforts that Manitoba has a unique and highly effective health program, integrating hospital services, public health, laboratory and diagnostic services. With such experience, his services were quickly requested by the Department of National Health and Welfare to assist in establishing health insurance studies and to serve temporarily as director. Within a few months, it was appreciated that his services were essential and he retired from the Manitoba Civil Service in 1948. In 1951, he visited a number of European countries to examine and appraise existing health insurance plans. In 1954, his responsibilities were extended to embrace administration of the department's research, consultant and associated services as Director of Health Services.

High tributes of appreciation were paid to Dr. Jackson on the occasion of his retirement by the Hon. Paul Martin, Minister of National Health and Welfare, by his associates and by the members of the Dominion Council of Health, representing all of the provinces. Members of the American Public Health Association, assembled for the eighty-fourth Annual Meeting in Atlantic City, honoured him with one of their highest honours, the Sedgwick

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Memorial Medal, given "For Distinguished Service in Public Health". Dr. Jackson is the first Canadian to receive this great distinction.

The Canadian Public Health Association extends its heartiest congratula- tions and its best wishes to Dr. Jackson and to Mrs. Jackson.

THE CONTROL OF WATER POLLUTION A T the last session of the Ontario Legislature, the Ontario Water Resources

Commission was established to initiate plans for the development of water supplies and the construction of sewage disposal systems throughout the province. The Water Resources Commission is responsible to the Minister of Public Works and is constituted along similar lines to the Ontario Hydro- Electric Power Commission. It will supervise the expenditure of between $100,000,000 and $150,000,000 annually during the next twenty years to bring water to and build sewage plants for 3,000,000 people of the province who now depend upon sub-surface water supplies. The Commission is already functioning and work will shortly start to meet the needs of cities in south- western Ontario by bringing water to these cities from the Great Lakes.

The provision of sewage disposal plants is essential in the prevention of water pollution. Unfortunately, municipalities have great difficulty in obtain- ing the support of taxpayers for sewage disposal programs. It has been sug- gested that a plan similar to the National Health Grants would give great encouragement to municipalities to undertake new installations if grants-in- aid were made by the provincial or federal authorities.

In this connection, it is of interest that Dr. Leroy E. Burney, Surgeon- General of the Public Health Service, Department of Health Education and Welfare of the United States, has announced the provisions of the new Federal Water Pollutions Control Act. The new law authorizes federal grants to municipalities to assist them in the construction of necessary sewage treatment works as a pollution control and water conservation measure. The act also authorizes a five-year program of grants to states and to inter-state water pollution control agencies to assist them to develop their own pollution control operations. The statute replaces the Water Pollution Control Act of 1948. Federal grants provide $50,000,000 a year for the construction of municipal sewage treatment works. The amount for any one project may not exceed 30 per cent of the cost, or $250,000, whichever is smaller.

The Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Centre at Cincinatti which has made such an important contribution in the control of water pollution will be utilized in the intensified program of research, technical assistance and training as provided for in the new act. The act authorizes the Public Health Service to develop research in universities and other non-federal facilities on water pollution control by means of grants, contracts and fellowships.

Steps taken by the Federal Government of the United States indicate the lines along which the solution of this pressing problem of water pollution may be made. Municipalities in Canada are hard-pressed financially and further assistance to them by federal or provincial authorities in the construc- tion of modern sewage disposal facilities would mean much in the providing of these essential services.

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