The solution
of the problem is not very difficult. What has been done elsewhere can
be done here. It is not so much in the cities, though here too the death
rate is still high, but in the smaller towns and rural districts, in
many of which the sanitary conditions are still those of the Middle
Ages. How Galen would have turned up his nose with contempt at the
water supply of the capital of the Dominion of Canada, scourged so
disgracefully by typhoid fever of late! There is no question that the
public is awakening, but many State Boards of Health need more efficient
organization, and larger appropriations. Others are models, and it is
not for lack of example that many lag behind. The health officers should
have special training in sanitary science and special courses leading to
diplomas in public health should be given in the medical schools. Were
the health of the people made a question of public and not of party
policy, only a skilled expert could possibly be appointed as a public
health officer, not, as is now so often the case, the man with the
political pull.
(7a) Connecticut.
It is a long and tragic story in the annals of this country. That
distinguished man, the first professor of physic in this University
in the early years of last century, Dr.
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