4. To advocate the organization of local health leagues as a stimulus to public interest and to give aid and support to the public health service.
5. To encourage the slowly growing sentiment for a rigid supervision (and isolation if necessary) of tubercular victims, which is the only way in which this devastating plague can be stamped out.
6. To advocate the employment of civic nurses in the health service, who may also act as health inspectors and aid in educational work.
7. To advocate the issuance and distribution by the States or municipalities of an official prevention manual to teach the public how to avoid preventable disease.
8. To urge every individual to go to his or her doctor for periodical health inspections to detect disease in time to arrest or cure it.
9. To urge employers of labor to give their employes these examinations free as a part of their efficiency and welfare program.
10. To encourage philanthropy, now so generously contributing for the care of the sick, to also enter the field of disease prevention which it has so far quite generally neglected.
Human life is our paramount asset. Its conservation should be your paramount issue.
President White—The audience is certainly indebted for this great and interesting paper. It is hard to get over stubborn facts and figures, especially where figures are facts.
A great doctor once shocked the people of the country by saying that everybody should be chloroformed when they arrived at the age of sixty. From this paper it would seem we ought at least to reach the age of sixty, the age of being chloroformed, and, better still, we had better so conduct the board of health and so support liberally the board of health in our city that people may just begin to live when they get to be sixty.