Stephen Smith
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In the Committee on Public Health were many of the more prominent medical men of that period, as doctor Valentine Mott, doctor Joseph M.
Smith, doctor James R.
Wood, Professor John W.
Draper, Dr.
Willard Parker, Dr.
Isaac E.
Taylor, and
The Committee on Law was equally distinguished for its membership, having on its list the names of William M.
Everts, Charles Tracy, D B Silliman, and
It was determined as a preliminary step to prepare a health bill and introduce it into the legislature, which was that of eighteen sixty four, and thus learn the obstacles to be met, for efforts had repeatedly been made to pass health bills without success.
The bill was drawn along the lines of previous bills and was altogether inadequate in its provisions to effect the requirement.
required reforms.
The effort, however, developed the fact that the real opposition to health legislation was the city inspectors department.
As that department exercised all of the health powers, any proper health bill would abolish it altogether.
The city inspector at that time was a grossly ignorant politician, but as he had upwards of one million of dollars at his disposal, he had a prevailing influence in the legislature when any bill affected his interests.
At the hearing on the Association's bill, the city inspector's agents denied every allegation as to the unsanitary condition of the city and
and as the association had no definite information as to the facts asserted, the bill failed, as had all the bills of the Sanitary Association during the previous ten years.
In conference it was now decided to make a thorough sanitary inspection of the city by a corps of competent physicians, draft a new and much more comprehensive measure, and thus be prepared to confront the city inspector with reliable facts in regard to the actual condition of the city.
The citizens association consented to bear the expense of the undertaking.
Under the auspices of the association and in the absence of the Secretary of the Committee on Health, doctor Elisha Harris, who was at that time in the service of the United States Sanitary Association, I organized and supervised the inspection.
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