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

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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$!K) intiinatoly jis fellow workers, iiiid as leaders in the lioly war aj>aiiisl disease and all causes of ill health. Fired with the enthusiasui of the Secretary and inend)ers of this Hoard, I trust that something of it was ti-ansinitted to Canada, and that in this, as in so many in- stances. tin* young man has. from a foreign land, sent back to the mothei', something from the stoi’e of w('allh which her lessons taught him how to ('hlain. To th(‘ people of ^Michigan who, through their I’Cpresentative citizens, are gatlu'red h(*r(* tonight to do honor to themselves by honoring those who for twenty-tive yeais, whetlu'r in the Legislature*, in the Slate Hoard, oi* who as ollicers of h(*alth of your LolKI municipalities, have elevated the* standard of wealth, health and hapi)im*ss by teaching and h(*lping the ])(‘ople to enjoy and jireserve* the highest gift of the (liv(*r, a sound mind in a sound body, I bi*ing Canada’s (ireeting to encourage you to still greater elforts to fullill to its utmost the ideal of the motto on your State crest— Si (piarris jK^niiDutlaiii (ivw naii circinnspirr! Clitiiniiini W'rlls Howevrr just iiiny lie the i rilieism that Slates and Kovenimonts iiiaUe more* lilieral coiilrihutioiis In seem-e health for domestic animals than for man, yet the value of work dom* to jirevent diseases in animals can scan*ely he over- stated. So man.v diseases are common to hoth man and animals and are cap- able of belli}; <*ommnnicated from one to the other that restriction of sm h diseases in animais furnislies a lar};e de}rree of jiroteetion to imjnanity. Doctor Salmon. Chief of Mureiiii of .\ninml Industry, in tin* I)(‘])artment of A}rriciiltiire at Wash- iii};ton. has this work of restrictiii}; di.seases in animals in char};e for the }reneral i;ovornment. .Most of you arc familiar with his ctTorts in this direction and ap- preciate their value, and I lake great pletisun* in introducing to this audience Doctor Salmon of Washington. 1). F. iSALMON, I). V. M., AVASHINOTON, I). C. CIlIKk OK mitH.U' OK .tXIM.M, INDlSTItV, V. S. DKl'.MtT.M KNT OK -VOHK’l'bTf ItK. I desire lo'iidd my congrtitiihitions to those of the distinguisluhl gentle- men who are participating in this mdiible celebration. If the founders of the State Hotird of lletilth of Michigtin laid bt*en endowed with pro])hetic vision tuid htid desired that the first (piarter c(*ntury of tliis institution’s existence should be ]iasse<l in tin; most tictivt* iieriod in the history of sanitiiry science* they could not have selected ti more tiuspicious time for its organization than the year 187.‘L AVe were then just upon the thri'shold of :i new era. The human race Inid reached a point in its de- velojnnent whei-e, out of the utter dtirknoss which had enveloped tin* subject since the beginning of history, its foi*emost investigators, peering through tin* obscurity which sni-rounded them, could discern a faint ray of light which a])peared to be growing stronger in the field of infec- tious disease's, tmd wdiich had already kindled the hope that in the full- ness of time the cause of these ]dagues would be revealed. It is imiiossible in the time at my dispostil to so much tis enumerate the wonderful discoveries which sanitary science has laid at the feet of humanity during this active and jirolific period. Hut even an enumer- ation is unnecessary since all remember how closely one announcement of$