Stephen Smith
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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The president was doctor Joseph M.
Smith, one of the ablest writers on sanitary science in this country, and among its members were doctors Valentine Mott, James Anderson, Willard Parker, Alonzo Clark, Gurden Buck, James R.
Wood, Charles Henschel, Alfred C.
Post, Isaac E.
Taylor, John W.
Draper, R.
Ogden Doramis, Henry Golden, Henry D.
D.
Bolkley and Elisha Harris.
In prosecuting this inquiry, the association was guided by the experience of similar organizations in Great Britain, where sanitary science is now cultivated with the greatest zeal and is yielding the richest fruits.
As a preliminary step to the introduction of sanitary reforms, many of the populous towns of England made a more or less complete inspection of the homes of the people to determine their conditions.
Condition and to enable them to arrive at correct conclusions as to the required remedial measures.
The English government undertook a similar investigation through its commissioners for inquiring into the state of large towns and populous districts, and the voluminous and exhaustive reports of that commission laid the foundation of the admirable sanitary system of that country.
The first object of sanitary organization was apparently therefore to obtain detailed information as to the existing causes of disease and the mortality of the population, and as to the special incidents of that mortality upon each sex and each age on separate places on various occupations, in fact, to present a detailed account of what may be called the
called in commercial phrase our transactions in human life.
Evidently the best method of arriving at such knowledge was by a systematic inspection, and that inspection must be a house to house visitation in which the course of inquiry not only developed all the facts relating to the sanitary, but equally to the social condition of the people.
It must necessarily be required of the inspector that he visit every house and every family in the house, and not
and learn by personal examination, inquiry, and observation, every circumstance, external and internal, to the domicile bearing upon the health of the individual.
To perform such service satisfactorily, skilled labor must be employed.
No student of general science, much less a common artisan, was qualified to undertake this investigation into the causes of disease.
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