He appeared to be honest and busy pushing to promote a healthy inter-office life style thus encouraging his team to keep up to standards and hopefully influencing healthy surroundings.
They usually had their own work space, isolated from other colleagues where even inter-office communication came through memos delivered by secretaries.
Although it was never explicitly stated in the news releases, it seems fairly clear inter-office memos and the posting of handwashing policies were not getting through to the professionals.