RT Journal
A1 Montgomery LH
T1 ILlinois society for prevention of consumption.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD July 8
VO XXXIII
IS 2
SP 90
OP 91
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.02450540034004
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450540034004
AB Chicago, June, 28. 1899.To the Editor: 
    —One week ago there was organized in this city a society having for its object, as its name indicates, the prevention of tuberculosis. Relative to this topic and apropos of it is what the Journal and the American Medical Association has advocated for several years, viz., that the United States Government should have a department of public health and a competent scientific physician as medical secretary of the same. In this respect the Government is behind the times.At the Columbus meeting of the Association, Dr. Joseph M. Mathews, in his presidential address, among other things stated, "That it was incumbent upon the Association as far scientific investigation can do so, to eliminate tuberculosis from the land, a disease so dreaded in character that is actually does remove yearly one-seventh of the population of the universe."I have often thought that statistics are