Minnesota Communities

	Red Wing: Public Health

Source

Document 3

Type

Document

Year

1896

Source

Minnesota Historical Society

Size

116K

Charles Hewitt, director of the State Board of Health, wrote these notes about the importance of hygiene in the prevention of disease.

A section of the Society ought to be one field for such
study, to help remove from our profession the reproach that we are not
workers for social health, nor interested in social advancement. The
physician should claim and fill his position as a social force for
these purposes where he lives. If he will do so, and bring the fami-
lies he serves to appreciate and secure a clean soil, pure water, a
clean house, with abundant pure air and sunlight, disease, vice, and
physical degeneracy, will get a "set back", and health and happiness
a boon which no other man or class of men can give.
Will he do it?