Excerpt from The Public Health: An Address Delivered at Cambridge in the Section of Public Medicine of the British Medical Association Reports are required to be sent to the Central Authority annually by every Medical Officer in the country, and these Reports, some times of considerable value, sometimes too meagre to be of any service, form a good criterion of the state of public opinion, and hence also of the condition of every District of the country. And lastly, the admirable yearly volumes of Dr. Buchanan, Medical Officer of the Local Government Board, give earnest that annually a complete summary of work he has done or has had done and by inference and suggestion of work yet to be done, will be within reach of all who have inclination, leisure, or duty to watch this development of the National Economy. For the facts above stated I am chiefly indebted to the ever ready kindness of Sir John Lambert, of whose worth as a long tried Officer of the State it would not become me here to speak. When then these circumstances are impartially considered first, the existence of -one comprehensive Central Department; second, all pervading Local Authorities; third, active, diffused, interest as to the extent of Sanitary requirements and how to meet them and, fourth, uniform progress in every department upon the whole the best answer is given to those who take a pessimist view of the growth of ideas as to National Health. Yet most are agreed that some development of the Central, and some change in the Local, Authority are required and that there are arrangements, which, excellent while provisional, have not the qualities needed for permanence. 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.