Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-06-20

SltN DOny IN sanitary science, puDnC
health or State medicine. He must not
engage In private practice except by
special permission from the council. OF
course he receive a enumeration in pro-
portion TO his training and duties
In small American communities like
these Of Vermont. conditions are decided
ly different. Here the sanitary ofIicias
must he men whose principal vocation is
something else. and any man who accepts
the responsibility or the protection Of the
public health In such communities. must
do IL at something of sacrifice to him
self, That medical men whose incomes
depend upon treating the sick are will
ing TO take these positions and Use their
efforts In the struggle to eliminate the
very diseases upon which their income
depend is an example of professional
philanthropy seen in no other profession
or class of men.
Such men can not be expected TO ac-
quire the special training which is In
volved in all the questions which confront
the official. They should not under the
present regim" he expected TO do So
Much can be learned by experience but
unfortunately these positions in Yer
mont are too much at the mercy of local
politics and political changes are likely
10 remove n man when he has become
most efficient and replace him with an
entirely unframed Successor
These are the conditions which call for
the establishment OF state laboratory.
This makes available for the health
officials IN the small towns. a corp Of men
Of special training to answer some OF the
perplexirg questions which Il is difficult
or Impossible for the general practitioner
or health officer 10 answer. II supple
ments his work, shares his responsible
ties. liShtens his tasks. and supplies him
with the resources needed to make him
the equal Of the university trained sanit-
arian. II is simply an application of the
business principles of economy in central
alton
Vermont is a state admirably suited for
the maintenance and use Of such an insti-
t'Tion. Her large percentage Of small
towns and villages, her comparatively
small area, her multitude Of free mail
delivery routes. and tho average high
intelligence of the population. all 60 to
render the need Of a centralized labor
atory great and the possibility Of its sue
cess large.
and cents or in human lives, the boon
which was conferred upon this state by
the work of that enthusiast, Dr Jo II
ldnsley. for none can doubt that It was
largely due to his unquenchable on
thusiasm, his boundless energy and his
hercilean efforts that the Green Noun
tain State was almost the first in the
Union to have a state laboratory and only
those who stood noa rest to him will ever
know how much of his life he put into
the fight for this Institution or against
how much opposition or harder yet,
inertia of indifference he fought
He early forsaw the tremendous sieni-
ficanCe to sanitation Of bacteriologv and
appreciated the technical problem which
must be answered by the state sanitary
officials and realized the mpossibiity Of
answering some OF these without labor
atory resources.
The laboratory Is an institution estah-
lished 10 aid and supplement. never re-
place your work, and should be 50 regard
ed by you. 1t hehooves YOU to meet It
half way. In sending specimens FOR ex-
animation, YOU should furnish all the
possible informal ton tending to throw
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