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only for the cure but also for the prevention of infantile 

 diseases. Similar safeguards should be introduced 

 into any system that may come into law for the 

 training and examination of qualified nurses. 



The whole subject of the organization of the 

 Public Health service of the country is sufficiently 

 large and important to require the appointment of a 

 Departmental Committee or a Royal Commission ; and 

 we may perhaps express a hope that our President 

 may be able to secure the appointment of such a body, 

 so as to crown the work of his seven years' tenure of 

 office and himself become in title as well as in deed 

 the first Minister of Health of the United Kingdom. 



THE HEALTH AUTHORITIES WORK IN 

 THE HOME. 



BY CHAS. A. HODGETTS, M.D., D.P.H., L.R.C.P.LoND. 



Medical Adviser, Co.nntission of Conservation of Canada, Ottawa. 



IN the gradual evolution of hygiene as a science 

 there has followed from time to time the assumption 

 by the State of the control, if not the actual solution, 

 of many problems which from their initiation had been 

 operated by voluntary social workers. And local 

 boards of health are now, in many instances, syste- 

 matically doing, through qualified officials, work that 

 was formerly carried on at the expense of philanthropy. 

 Wherever this is now the case, it can be claimed in 

 Canada at least that the results have been highly 

 satisfactory. 



Perhaps the most striking example has been in the 

 anti-tuberculosis work, where the philanthropist was 

 moved to activity and carried on work in different 

 places long before the Government or municipal 

 authorities even manifested interest. Gradually, how- 

 ever, both federal, provincial and municipal authorities 

 have become linked up, and it is quite apparent that 



