The Relative Values of Public Health Procedures
Abstract
JAMA Revisited July 14, 1917 health officer himself who, in order to justify the political over- turn of his office, seeks to reorganize the health work of his city after a few hours’ study of some passing book on “sani- tation.” Rare, indeed, is it that competent advisers are called Charles V. Chapin, M.D., Superintendent of Health, in to plan a health department so as to utilize most effectively Providence, R. I. the best scientific knowledge of how to preserve the health...