A NATIONAL BOAKD OF HEALTH 
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is collected, the National Board of Health—we think it will finally 
develop into a department—should give out once in every ten 
years, geographical maps of the extension of diseases in the United 
States, with tests, but such should not be limited to invasive dis¬ 
eases, but should embrace every disease, except induced, and it 
might be well to embrace them also, such as syphilis, in the 
same. We wish to say one word about the proposed pay, $5,000 
per year. It is evident the work requires the ablest men the coun¬ 
try can produce, men who could earn from $20,000 to $30,000 per 
year in practicing. It is an insult to offer such men $5,000 a year 
to give their entire energies to the people for their lives; $7,500 
and retiring on full pension when sixty years old, or useless from 
overwork, is little enough, and only by such a course can we ex¬ 
pect good men. The people do not want the positions filled by 
worn out millionaires for honor alone. Yes, we need a board of 
national hygiene, but let it not be composed of antiquated fun- 
gosities, but of men in the aggressive, not the defensive years of 
life. Let it be composed of men alive in the science of to-day, 
not buried in the dream of the past. The good time is now, is 
before us. u The good old days of yore,” do not for us exist; they 
existed for the men Living , not dying in their perfection . Theyws- 
sible is ever before us, not behind. It must be composed of: men 
equal to the emergencies of our day and country, and blessed 
shall we be, if one now among them answers to the same. 
In carefully considering the memorial in question, we were 
not surprised at observing an omission, which all things considered, 
is excusable, but which, nevertheless, neglects one of the most im¬ 
portant assistants, aye, in many ways, the most important factor in 
reference to questions of national hygiene. We allude to the 
fact, that we find no veterinarian is thought necessary to such a 
Board. It certainly must be known to the estimable drafters of 
said memorial, that some of the weightiest prophylactic and hy¬ 
gienic questions of the day are entirely out of their line of work, 
can in fact only be rightly considered and investigated at the 
hands of scientifically educated veterinarii. One need but allude 
to the terribly fascinating interest, for the pathological experi¬ 
mentalist and^setiologist, attached to the question of “ Tuberculotic 
