Iowa State University - Bomb Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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.FACULTY EXTENSION SERVICE R. K. Bliss Director of Agricultural Extension Y MAKING available the research work and other information that Iowa State Col- lege has to offer to the people of Iowa does the Ex- tension Service bring this institution to the million people who live on the 214,000 farms in the state. Through a trained staff of extension specialists, county agents, home demonstration agents and club agents, the Extension Service carries information concerning all phases of agriculture and homemak- ing to the rural people. Its work embraces some activities of all the five divisions of the college. Agricultural Adjustment Administration pro- grams, in addition, drew heavily upon the educa- tional facilities of the Extension Service during 1934 and 1935. Extension specialists and members of the State Corn-Hog Committee trained the 1934 county and township corn-hog workers. Education of farm homemakers, through the women ' s home project work in every county, and of rural girls and boys through 4-H club ac- tivities, naturally, was continued. Cooperation in maintaining and con- ducting Station WOI, the college broadcasting station, went forward as usual. There are, besides the administrative staff, specialists in agricultural economics as well as in every other department of Agriculture, Dairy, Home Economics and in club work. Twenty-seven

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Tirentit ' six ETERiNARY MEDICINE is steadily app roaching a new concept of its field of service. Instead of thinking in terms of disease, as has been the habit until quite recently in all branches of medicine, it is thinking of the application of medical sciences to all life, and particularly with a view of assisting to maintain health instead of curing disease. The new Department of Veterinary Hygiene is organized and func- tioning. It has taken over the milk inspection service for the City of Ames, which serves as an excellent laboratory in food hygiene. The Veterinary Research Institute was well represented at the first International Veterinary Congress to be held in the United States. The number in attendance was 1,820 from a membership of over 3,000, 750 of whom were from 61 foreign countries. The first class to enter under the one-year col- lege entrance requirement will graduate in June. It has been necessary for the veterinary faculty to adopt a selective system of admissions because there are approximately twice as many applicants as the facilities of the veterinary college can accommodate. Those who have had more than one year of college work will be given preference. All but two of the veterinary colleges of the United States have adopted the same requirements inaugurated four years ago by Iowa State College. C. H. Stance Dean oj Veterinary Medicine VETERINARY MEDICINE FACULTY

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. . „ FACULTY HYGIENE DEPARTMENT A, -LTHOUGH care of the sick plays an important part in hospital work, an even greater one is that of prevention of illness and improvement of health among students. As the first step, all entering students are given a careful once over during the entrance examina- tions. All who show physical defects or health im- paiiTnents are followed up in further conferences, and advice and treatment are given with a view of correcting or improving the condition. Then once a year all students, graduates and undergraduates must be examined. Tuberculosis tests have been con- tinued this year, and every student who shows a positive test is given an X-ray examination. The plan of first aid instruction for all house mothers of and presi- dents of sororities and women ' s dormitories has been continued this year. This plan has shown remarkable results, for the number of students who foi-merly went to the hospital for minor cuts and bruises has greatly de- creased. The north wing of the hospital, built in 1915, has a capacity of 40 beds and includes the kitchen and dining room. The east wing, built in 1924, more than doubled the capacity and gives added dispensary and laboratory facilities so that now the college has ample facilities for caring for . ' unh of its students as need hospital or ambulatory care. No other institution, except perhaps those with medical schools, is better equipped in this respect and few hospitals are better provided with laboratory, X-ray and other equipment for diagnosis and treatment, both for curative and preventive purposes. Dr. J. F. Edwards Head of Hygiene Depnrtment Twenty-eight