TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE. 313 



sacrificing men whose worth is never half known till they are 

 dead had labored unremittingly through the columns of a medi- 

 cal journal that he conducted for a State Board. At last the 



Lives saved by Public Health work, bij comparison of death-rate in Michi- 

 gan before and after the establishment of the State Board of Health. 

 Compiled from the Vital Statistics gathered bt/ local Health Officers, and 

 showing at a glance the value of enforced sanitation. Lives saved from 

 scarlet fever in seventeen years 7,265. 



Legislature yielded to his importunate zeal. He devoted the 

 entire earnings of his journal to sustaining it for four years of 

 " anxiety and hardship " ; but the blood of the martyrs has been 

 the most fertilizing material that has ever been expended on this 

 crooked old earth, and before his lamented death in the prime of 

 life in 1892, he saw his State with a thoroughly organized health 

 service in every corner. 



