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.Nathan Smith, in that notable monograph on "Typhus Fever" (1824), tells how the disease had followed him in his various migrations, from 1787, when he began to practice, all through his career, and could he return this year, in some hundred and forty or one hundred and fifty families of the state he would find the same miserable tragedy which he had witnessed so often in the same heedless sacrifice of the young on the altar of ignorance and incapacity.
TUBERCULOSIS IN a population of about one million, seventeen hundred persons died of tuberculosis in this state in the year 1911--a reduction in thirty years of nearly 50 per cent.

A generation has changed completely our outlook on one of the most terrible scourges of the race.

It is simply appalling to think of the ravages of this disease in civilized communities.

Before the discovery by Robert Koch of the bacillus, we were helpless and hopeless; in an Oriental fatalism we accepted with folded hands a state of affairs which use and wont had made bearable.