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.