Bulletin Volume 1, No. 4 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... Senate or the House, but he has described the legislature as it was exactly at that time. The first bill that I introduced in 1878 was No. 2 or No. 3 on the list: it was a bill to establish the State Board of Health, and Dr. Holton was the author, and that is how I came to know him. He had been there before, in 1876 and '74, and I don't know but in '72. He told the legislature the year I was there, that if they did n't pass the bill that year they would see him again. I struggled with all my might to get it through, and I met the kind of opposition there that Dr. Peck has spoken of. It went through the Senate by a pretty substantial majority. I worked before the joint committee of both houses; but it failed in the House by a large majority that year. Then in 1880, and '82, and '84, and then again in '86. Think of the persistence and labor of Dr. Holton. In 1886, I believe, the bill was passed and a State Board appointed. I have always attended your meetings and am very much interested in them. I am associated with four men on the tuberculosis commission and I am a firm believer that tuberculosis can be prevented. I also believe tuberculosis is curable. About twenty years ago tuberculosis attacked me. I was going to say I inherited it, for it used to be considered hereditary. Whether it is or not, is a question of what the definition of hereditary is. If you mean that the father or the mother or both have a constitution which cannot resist the bacilli that come floating through the air, then so are the children likewise constituted. It runs through families. Well, I had an attack of the disease when I was twenty, and then when I was thirty, and then again when I was forty. Doctors in Burlington did n't tell me, but did tell others, that...