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will be inspected and under the supervision of the local boards 
of health. When that time does come, gentlemen, yon will be 
called upon for your services, and the people will demand that 
they have the benefit of your knowledge. Ill fact, it is your 
duty as well as mine, to assist in bringing about this happy re¬ 
sult. You understand the dangers of eating meat infected by 
trichina and actinomycosis, or drinking milk infected by tuber¬ 
cular bacilli; along with the medical profession and with sani¬ 
tarians it is your privilege as well as duty, to be teachers, leaders 
and educators in this great work. The field is not only great 
but the work is grand. 
No man can fill the niche in the world that God intended 
he should fill, and live for himself alone. What we do to ele¬ 
vate and make humanity better, place our fellow man upon a 
higher plane of usefulness, make him happier, wiser and more 
prosperous, will alone secure the greatest happiness for ourselves 
and make us feel that we have not lived in vain. 
You will be confronted by many difficulties and all kinds of 
obstructions to be overcome in your fight against ignorance, 
prejudice, sordid and avaricious desire to accumulate wealth. 
All these obstacles must be removed or overcome before the 
people will understand and appreciate the fact that they have 
an abiding interest in the fight against filth and disease. 
Your fight is in the interest of humanity ; not of life alone, 
but the protection and preservation of property as well. I will 
not attempt to go into statistics to any extent to prove any as¬ 
sertion I may make, but suffice it to say that one-half of the 
deaths are caused by contagious diseases, all of which are pre¬ 
ventable diseases and should be eradicated, and would be if 
proper sanitary laws were upon our statute books and heroically 
enforced. 
The existence and spread of typhoid fever, scarlet fever, 
diphtheria, tuberculosis, hog cholera, trichina, and actinomy¬ 
cosis are primct-facicE evidence of our ignorance or criminal 
negligence, and an insult to our higher civilization. The loss 
of life and destruction of property by these preventable diseases 
