TY  - JOUR
T1  - THe need of sanitary legislation.
Y1  - 1889/06/22
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1889.02401020017004
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 881
EP  - 882
VL  - XII
IS  - 25
N2  - It is an accepted fact that the health of a Nation is paramount to its commercial prosperity, and that when human life is imperiled thereby, even the wheels of commerce must stop. It is also an axiom that the demands of the public good are paramount to individual interests. The practical application of restraints upon business for the protection of health is often severe in its effects upon individual interests, and nothing but the strong arm of the law can make such restraints operative. Hence the necessity of municipal and of State legislation for the preservation and protection of the public health. The intelligence of the American people is such, and such their estimate of human life, that they need only to be advised as to the best means of exercising sanitary control, to strongly uphold all legitimate legislation in this direction. In fact, the progress in matters of sanitary
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1889.02401020017004
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1889.02401020017004
ER  -