History of the medical profession of Camden County, N. J : including a brief review of the charitable institutions within the county / by E. L. B. Godfrey.

  • Godfrey, E. L. B.
Date:
1896
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Credit: History of the medical profession of Camden County, N. J : including a brief review of the charitable institutions within the county / by E. L. B. Godfrey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    secretary of the society and Mr. Henry B. Francis was made a member of the executive council. Section VI.—New Jersey State and Local Boards of Health. [1890.] The chief objects for which the State Board of Health has labored, since its establishment in 1877, are the centralization of information relating to the public health and its diffusion among local authorities to enable them to render effective sanitary service. This has been accomplished by means of its annual reports, its inspectors' guide, its public circulars, its printed inquiries to local boards and its publi- cation of the vital statistics of the State. In October of each year, the board transmits a printed schedule of inquiries to local boards of health, in the various townships and cities of the State, relating to health matters, which, under the law, must be annually reported. With the work of these boards and their reports, the physicians of the county have been closely connected. The report from Camden for this year, made by Eugene B. Roberts, health inspector, considered the subjects of water-supply, diseases of animals and slaughter-houses, and stated that typhoid fever, scarlet fever and diphtheria were the most prevalent diseases of the year. The following officers and members comprised the Camden board : George F. Hammond, president; T. P. Varney, secretary ; H. M. Snyder, solicitor;. Dr. J. D. Leckner, medical inspector; and Herman W. Miller, Dr. John W. Donges, Charles Watson, Dr. George R. Fortiner and Frank B. Delaplaine. [1891.] In 1891, the same officers and members comprised the Camden board, except that Frank H. Burdsall succeeded T. P. Varney, and M. F. Ivins was elected treasurer. The water-supply, sewage, school-houses and general inspection of the city were reported, with the statement that six hundred cases of scarlet fever and diphtheria occurred in the city duiing the year. [1892.] In 1892, Frank H. Burdsall served as president of the board; T. P. Varney, secretary; M. F. Ivins, treasurer ;.