"I look for the time when our courts of law shall punish cities and villages, for permitting any of the sources of bilious and malignant fevers to exist within their jurisdiction.” — BENj. Rush. "There are people who think that every thing may be done, if the doer, be he educator or physician, be only called in season. No doubt; but in season would often be a hundred or two years before the child was born, and people never send so early as that."-O. W. HOLMES. "In a wide sense, the science of public hygiene enlists the services of the people themselves, in continuous efforts at self-improvement; of the teachers of the people, to inculcate the best rules of life and action; of physicians, in preventing as well as curing disease; and of law-givers, to legalize and enforce measures of health preservation."- WILSON, Handbook of Hygiene. |