Proceedings of the quarter-centennial celebration of the establishment of the Michigan State Board of Health : held at Detroit, Michigan, August 9, 1898.
- Michigan. State Board of Health
- Date:
- 1898
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Proceedings of the quarter-centennial celebration of the establishment of the Michigan State Board of Health : held at Detroit, Michigan, August 9, 1898. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![The shores of the niainhind present great variety of vegetation and rocky clilf. Cities, villages and farms, diversify the landscape, and exhibit the homes of a people whose intelligence, thrift, and hospitality, are nowhere excelled. Wherever upon tliese shores nature i)resents unusual attractions, will be found the cottage of the seeker for health, recreation, or enjoyment. Men tilling all the professions, and those representing every depart- ment of business activity, students and teachers in every realm, with their families, crowd our steamers and railroad cars, to occuj>y, during the months when the heat of summer is elsewhere so depressing, these novel and attractive homes. Here they tind tonic in the dustless air sent freshl}' from the northland over Superior’s vast expanse. The ills and worries of life are forgotten, the steps of age or intirinity become elastic, the eye brightens, the pulses thrill, and the heart responds to the laughter of childhood, as it gambols in the waters upon the shelving sands. The inland lakes j)resent their own ])eculiar scenes of beauty, and the beholder finds it difiicult to decide, often, whether the larger or the smaller lakes ofl’er the greater attraction. To the State which nature has so lavishly endowed with these health and ])leasure giving attractions, and to this beautiful city which is the gateway to them all, you are to be welcomed by distinguished citizens of the commonwealth. The welcome of the State Board of Health, to the many distinguished sanitarians who honor it by tlnur jiresence today, is most earnest. It hopes your visit to the State will be agreeable and ])rotitable, and that you will remain within our borders long enough to ap{)reciate the truth of the motto on Michigan’s crest: “If a beautiful peninsula you would behold, look about you’’! Cliairiunn Wells—Your welcome to Detroit, ladies and gentlemen, will be ex- jiressed by one of its most distiiifruished and popular citizens. I take great pleasure in introducing Hon. William C. Maybury, mayor of the city. ADDRESS OF WELCOME. BY HON. WILLIAM C. MAYBURY, MAYOR OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: It affords me very great pleasure to welcome to Michigan and to Detroit this assemblage, with its j)hilanthro]»ic purjtoses. I can but believe that the legislature showed great wisdom when it designated Detroit its the meeting ])lace for the sanitary scientists, and as the most proper ])lace in which to celebrate the Quarter-centennnial of the Michigan State Board of Health. Detroit is a beautiful city, and to this is added the fact that it is a healthful city. We have a fair (piota of physicians all eminent in skill; but their labors are not confined to ministering to disease, for the condi- tions of life are such here that they are more largely engaged in making the strong stronger and the healthy healthier. It is well recognized that Ihere are only two principal causes of death in Detroit—one is unavoid-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22335213_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
