NATIONAL DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.

The coming Congress cannot consistently disregard the voice of the medical profession of the United States, demanding the speedy establishment of a national department of health, first formally expressed by the American Public Health Association, the foremost sanitary organization in the United States, Canada and Mexico, then deliberately and enthusiastically indorsed by the American Medical Association, the representative body of medical men of the entire country; and recommended with practical unanimity—three delegates not voting-by the National Conference of State and Provincial Boards of Health of North America, at its recent meeting in Richmond, Va. While the Canadian and Mexican health officials are constituent parts of this conference, their participation in the act of approval was of the most unselfish character, since both the Dominion and the Republic of Mexico already possess well-organized Federal health departments, such as sanitarians in the United States have so long desired. The executive authority in