Transactions (1868)

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132

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204 g

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Reports of Committees, REPORT OP COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC HEALTH. The Committee continued from 1866, " on matters relating to sanitary, hygienic and charitable provision for the citizens of this State, and to present the same to Executive and Legislative consideration," would respectfully report, that early in the session of the last Legislature they met at the city of Trenton, and after conferring with each other, and with some other members of the profession present, they agreed unanimously as to the kind of effort to be made, and a bill embodying their views was prepared to be presented to the Legislature. It was thought best to commit the desired act to the hands of Dr. Thomas J. Corson, a resident of Trenton, and a member of the Assembly, who fully accorded with the views of the Society and of the Committee. Notwithstanding his efforts were timely and judicious, the bill failed to become a law. The Legislature, having no dread' of cholera before their eyes, did not seem to realize the importance of any general legislation, and its friends were not able, in the press of other business, to secure a full consideration of its merits. Yet this Society has reason to feel that the effort made through their Committee, and the co-operation of others, has not been fruitless. The action of the first year resulted in the appointment of a Sanitary Commission, which was able to aid in instruction and effort for preventing the spread of cholera, and to direct the attention of the Legislature to other existing sources of disease. The statements as to the condition of insane persons outside of any asylum, and as to the condition of those returned to the poor houses of our State, have aided the movement initiated by our last Legislature for the establishment of another asylum. ...

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