Excerpt from Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin, Vol. 7: June, 1933 The number of students trained for public health in the country is greater than one might imagine. Since 1911 seven hundred'and seven degrees in public health have been conferred by the Schools of Pub lic Health at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Toronto. Of this number, one third have been given to foreign students. At the outset a large percentage of the students who came to our Health School were sent by the Rockefeller Foundation, principally from Central Europe. This group has diminished steadily within the past three years. At the present time our students are usually sent with fellowship help by the Rockefeller Foundation from State Boards of Health, County Health Units, et cetera, throughout the United States. They are men who have had practical ex perience in public health and who have been given leaves of absence for post graduate work. There is an increased feel ing throughout the country, and bills are beginning to be introduced in State Leg islatures, requiring the employment of health officers who possess a degree in pub lic health as well as in medicine. This fact, coupled with the steady freeing of health departments from absolute politi cal control, has begun to give us a profes sion of public health. In England they have had such a profession for many years, but with us public health work has ordinarily been done by physicians chosen for political reasons and without the Special training required by present knowl edge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.