RT Journal
A1 Allison SD
T1 EArly health departments
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 1969
FD November 10
VO 210
IS 6
SP 1104
OP 1104
DO 10.1001/jama.1969.03160320086035
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1969.03160320086035
AB To the Editor:— 
    Let us not detract from the pioneer efforts of Massachusetts in the field of public health, but the missionaries they sent to Hawaii outdid the natives they left behind in Boston. Kamehameha, probably aided by his missionary friends, established a board of health in 1850.