ADDRESS* 



By WM. H. WELCH, M. D., Baltimore 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : You know it is the old 

 bachelors and old maids who know how to take care of chil- 

 dren better than the mothers do themselves. 



It is so late that I am sure you will be pleased if I do not 

 extend the exercises very much longer, especially as there is a 

 very entrancing exhibition outside which I know you are all 

 eager to see. 



I may perhaps be permitted, as a resident of this city, to rein- 

 force the words of welcome which have already been expressed, 

 and I know that I speak in behalf of my fellow citizens, who are 

 also present, these words of welcome, to the members of this 

 Association, to the guests and others who have been so good as 

 to come here. We wish especially to express our gratitude to 

 his Eminence, the Cardinal; to his Excellency, Ambas- 

 sador Jusserand, who has brought us these kind messages from 

 France ; and to Professor Fisher, who has made himself an in- 

 spring leader of the great movement for the improvement of 

 public health in this country ; and I would like especially to 

 impress the note of welcome to my old master and teacher and 

 friend of these many years, Professor Jacobi, of New York. 



We are very glad, indeed, to have this first meeting of an 

 Association, which I believe initiates one of the most important 

 campaigns in preventive medicine in this country, in this city, 

 partly, perhaps, because there is no city which needs the in- 

 fluence and benefits which will come from the work of this 

 Association more than the City of Baltimore ; partly, also, 

 because we have a certain measure of loyal pride in the fact that 

 that great tuberculosis association, The National Association for 

 the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis which, I judge, the 

 name of this Association has followed had its first meeting in 

 this city, and in connection with it was an exhibition which Dr. 

 Fulton devised and which has turned out to be one of the most 

 interesting and important factors in the whole crusade against 



*Frora the stenographer's notes. 



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