president's address SECTION I. 195 



They have fulfilled my ideal of administering such laws by reading 

 permissive clauses relative to life and health as mandatory. They 

 have endowed their city with an executive guided by eminent 

 intelligence and actuated by ceaseless energy, and have equipped 

 that executive with all the means that Science recognises not only 

 as essential, but also as helpful, to safeguard the health of a great 

 community. Their reward has been that their city, whose " wynds 

 were a byword among strangers, and a scandal in the eyes of all 

 thoughtful citizens for generations," has become a pattern of 

 health administration, and an example of the success that attends 

 well-directed and persistent effort to improve the material and 

 physical wellbeing of a people. 



