RT Journal
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JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD June 5
VO LII
IS 23
SP 1814
OP 1819
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.25420490010002
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.25420490010002
AB The medical world is more and more making a study of the public health. Following closely on the progress made in the field of preventive medicine, we are seeing the principles therein established applied to large communities. The work of a health officer no longer means merely the collection of vital statistics, the suppression of communicable diseases and the abatement of nuisances, but involves the larger one of sanitary instruction of the public. There are in this country practically no colleges which prepare men for this expert work, and with the large percentage of our health boards whose personnel reflects some political affiliations in control of the work of the health officer, it is not to be wondered at that some of our cities are not making the desired progress in their health affairs.The city's health, as well as its disease, is more and more becoming the business of