First Public Health Building Constructed with Federal Funds.—
The first public health center in the United States to be built with federal aid was dedicated and opened to the public in Birmingham January 27. The seven story structure was financed by about $300;000 in federal funds, to which were added the combined state-county and city funds of $600,000. The prinicipal dedicatory address was read for Dr. Leonard A. Scheele, Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service, by his Deputy Surgeon General, Dr. W. Palmer Dearing. Other addresses were made by the present and immediate past governors of the state, Dr. Daniel G. Gill, state health officer, the Honorable Lister Hill, U. S. Senator, and Dr. George A. Denison, county health officer. The building will house offices of the Jefferson County Board of Health, Alabama state laboratories and voluntary agencies, such as the local branches of the tuberculosis