The New Public Health

The Minnesota State Board of Health in 1911 designated the writer, then in charge of theD ivision of Epidemiology of that Board, to present the modern conceptions to the medical profession and to the public. A series of articles, which appeared monthly during 1912 in the Journal-L ancet of Minneapolis, was the outcome. These articles were furnished by the Journal-L ancet to 1,100 newspapers in the United States, and, during the latter half of the series, to fifty newspapers inC anada. Finally they were reprinted in book form at the end of the year. So cordial was their reception, that a revision and expansion of the articles thus first issued has been undertaken here. The writer, in expressing his great personal debt to theS tate Board of Health of Minnesota for making possible this beginning and to theB oard of Governors of the Institute of Public Health of London for its liberal support and continuation, would mention particularly Dr. W. A. Jones and Dr. H. M.
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