PAPERS OX MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH 295 



I know whereof I speak, as at one time I enjoyed this 

 | - :ion at the munificent salary of annum, and 



now I know that I was overpaid. I am safe in saying 

 right now that the same is the case anywhere where a 

 part-time man is employed : in other . there is no 



value under these conditions. Owing to the fact of re- 

 markable discoveries I lade of the causes of 

 ease, especially of communicable d - wing 

 to the fact that the laity reads and dig sts this knowl- 

 edge, a demand has been crer' will 

 devote their entire time and energies in this field : hence 

 the full-time man. and just 3 are beginning 

 is work because more men are entering 

 ;n ever before. 



Physicians have been very do health work; 



. because the compensation has been very small: 

 second, the prospect of advancement beyond a cei 

 point has als n small: but we are beginning to rea- 



lize that a good salary regularly received is worth more 

 than the general compensation of an uncertain practice. 

 Another factor may enter hit roblem and that is 



the absence of mathematical demonstration of the re- 

 sults, nor have we patience enough to allow a period of 

 years to elapse to prove the ben :eived. As an 



example, and this has occurred 



disease arrive? in a town, is laxly controlled and fifty 

 other cases result. In a neighboring city the same c 

 nal case arrives, is thoroughly controlled and no other 

 results. Is there a benefit credited or t 

 w this is _ og on all the time. 



Dr. McCullough of Ontario in an addres - fly read 



before the American Public Health As 



ng the situation at the present time, the con- 

 n reached that our greatest need is a com- 

 petent full-time directing head of a health department 

 with an efficient organization, whether it be in the state, 

 the county or the municipality. Public health is a 

 business, and some of us at least may be of the opinion 

 that the advancement of public health is one of the most 

 important if not the most important business of the 

 state". According to the figures collected by Dr. Fer- 



