TY  - JOUR
T1  - EArly health departments
AU  - Allison SD
Y1  - 1969/11/10
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1969.03160320086035
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1104
EP  - 1104
VL  - 210
IS  - 6
N2  - 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.
SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1969.03160320086035
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1969.03160320086035
ER  -