The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-12-27
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH
Its Position in Regard to the Question Of
Representation at the Big Fair.

The monthly meeting of the State
Board of Health, which was held here
yesterday, after Informally considering
various subjects, adjourned to an early
date in order to more fully prepare GER
tain reports. The following statement
is furnished concerning the efforts to se-
cure representation for the Board of
Health at the Worlds Fair:
The committee appointed to lay before
the executive officers OF Names World s
Fair committee the desirability of ar
ranging for representation at Chicago
of the existence and work of the Maine
State Board of Health asked to be dis
charged. They desire the citizens of the
state to know that they have not been
negligent in urging at various hearings
and through letters and interviews that
this state department be treated ID
manner that its importance deserves.
They feel and have urged that there is
no feature of educational development
that excels in value both in a philan-
thropic and commercial sense, the work
that the state board and local boards OF
health have been and are doing through
out the state. They assert that in this
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the intelligent world gauges the degree Of
CIVILIZATION of community more by the
knowledge that it shows and work that
it performs in health education than by
it's scheme of common schools, the exist
ence of which is taken for granted in
New England. And yet it is not pro-
posed that our schools should go unrep-
resented. They have pointed out that
one of Names greatest selfish interests
| lies in the maintenance and development
of it's summer resort business, and in adj
vertising to the world it's strong features
as a sanitarium and yet neither
| the executive committee of Maine's
| Worlds Fair or the sub-com-
mittee on summer resorts have
deemed it of sufficient significance that
| the world and people from out this state
! that we wish to attract to it should be
informed that Maine is fully alive to the
| Importance of State and local health reg
| ulations, that it is organized to prevent
and to stamp out filth disease or cpl
denies, should they occur, that detnils
| of good sanitation at summer resorts are
| looked after as we'll as supervising that
scourges of cholera and smallpox gain
no hold in our mic st; that this oppor-
tunity at the Columbian Fair is not en-
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living no support to the claims made by
summer resort interests. and has been
obliged to decli g the invitation to join
in congress of other state boards for
comparison and discussion of methods
is not due to negligence of the Board
in failing to urge the Maine World s
Fair committee to action in it's behalf.
| The responsibility of discriminating
against the representation at the World S
Exhibition of Names educational work
in health matters in favor of certain mar
row and sentimental interests must be
placed with the states executive COM
1nittee having such matters in charge. II
would be interesting to compare the inn
portance of having our advanced posi-
ton in the development and execution
of health regultions represented with
that OF other interests that have received
material aid from the fund granted by
the state.