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Hawaii. This committee is particular]}' concerned with perfecting 

 sanitary measures to prevent propagation of disease-bearing insects and 

 rodents, and its work is being carried on in conjunction with the terri- 

 torial board of health. 



Dr. Blue has always been especially strong in the field of preventive 

 medicine and quarantine, rather than in the line of hospital service. 

 He is a man of engaging personality, an excellent executive, a skillful 

 organizer and judge of men, and above all, he has in full measure the 

 happy quality of making friends and reconciling opposing interests. 



The Public Health Service stands to-day on its record and its as- 

 pirations, a monument to the men who have made it, a memorial to the 

 gallant officers whose lives have been laid down in devotion to their 

 duty and the principles of their corps, and the strong bulwark of the 

 American people against the deadly foieign foes of epidemic disease, 

 and the insidious domestic perils of poor sanitation, ignorance and prej- 

 udice. 



Of more vital though prosaic importance to the nation than either 

 army or navy, it has been less generally known and its work less com- 

 pletely understood. But this is rapidly being changed as the great 

 wave of enlightenment and interest in public and national health 

 affairs sweeps over the country, and as the knowledge is slowly in- 

 creasing that prevention of disease is the primary and essential work 

 of the physician. 



