The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-01-26
The Membership.

a part in their professional standards
after graduation.
The Membership.
A most commendable fraternal spirit
has M does exist among the medical
men in the three counties included in
this society. We should arrange the
continuance of this fellow feeling. |
would recommend that the secretary
be instructed to communicate with
each membe of the medical profession
and invite those who are not members
of the medical profession to present
their names for membership. Thus we
can maintain ourselves as a united
faculty, the standard of our medical
and surgical work will be enhanced.
and we will become much more of a
coordinate unit. We would thai each
member during the year give us freely
of his experiences and learning. We
cannot be too free in exhibiting a
spirit of h~elpfulness for the newcomer
of the man in the outlying districts.
Like feelings will 'beget like feelings.
Our object is to build up and foster
a spirit which will rebound to our pro-
fessional success, and thus give to our
community that service second to none
that can be obtained at any medical
or surgical hands. There is absolutely
no need for men and women going
elsewhere than to members of our So
ciety for aid in sickness or distress.
We have the men with minds, skill,
and experience capable of coping with
the most obscure and difficult of cases,
and our hospitals maintain a high
character for efficiency. Not one new
tried method arises in the medical
world but what is soon employed by
our local physicians with success.
Sanitation.
A committee on s%atitation is desired
in this society. Such a committee
could keep in touch with work in the
local county and city health depart
ments. 1t might be Of interest to have
such a committee look into and pre-
pare a report on the work of past
health officers. Or later, should the
consideration of building a south side
w come up again, as it undoubt-
edly will, such a committee could make
a personal investigation of the present
method of d%isposing Of wage and
make such a rational report for the
benefit of the public upon the subject
that will assist them in gaining a
thorough understanding of the eff
cheney 40 well as the defects of the
present system. This report coming
from this society would carry weight
and be appreciated by our city. A
clear statement made from an intimate
knowledge of health conditions, water
supply, soil drainage, etc, would meet
with instant popular approval, and be
read and studied by every householder.
Suffice it to state here that had the
city to depend upon wells for its water
supply we would long ago have been
visited by epimedics of typhoid that
would have appalled, us. But having as
We do a water supply from rain and
snow high on our mountains to the
north, conducted to our homes under
conditions that render contamination
of our water impossible, we have the
best of health conditions in our city
and freedom from epidemic diseases.
In closing allow me to state thai l
believe that we, not as individuals, but
as a co-ordinated body, have played
too inconspicuous a part in those mat
ters of public welfare in western Mon
ton from time to time. We should
make ourselves felt in all matters of
public good in our community, and
thus become a more potent force in