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53-5 Dearborn St., Chicago.

List of Contributors.

Dr. E. WYLLYS ANDREWS,
Dr. EDWIN R. BENNETT,
Dr. J. M. G. CARTER,
Dr. ARCHIBALD CHURCH,
Dr. NATHAN S. DAVIS,
Dr. RICHARD DEWEY,

Dr. CHAS. WARRINGTON EARLE,
PROF. GEORGE W. Fitz,

Dr. D. W. GRAHAM,

Mr. ERNEST HART,

Dr. J. L. HILMANTLE,

Dr. ALBERT E. HOADLEY,
Dr. BAYARD HOLMES,
Dr. O. N. HUFF,
Dr. B. M. LINNELL,
Dr. G. FRANK LYDSTON,

MISS KATE MARSDEN,

Dr. FRANKLIN H. MARTIN,
Dr. THOR MOELLER,
Dr. HAROLD N. MOYER,

Dr. HENRY PARKER NEWMAN,
Dr. GEORGE W. NEWTON,

Dr. A. J. ОCHSNER,

Dr. RICHARD BARTLETT OLESON, Dr. OSCAR J. PRICE,

Dr. WILLIAM ALLEN PUSEY,

Dr. ARTHUR R. REYNOLDS,

Dr. F. BYRON ROBINSON,

Dr. A. F. SIPPEY,

DR. HOMER M. THOMAS,

Dr. E. H. LINEN,

Dr. GEORGE H. WEAVER,

Dr. CASSIUS D. WESCOTT.

THE CHICAGO MEDICAL SOCIETY.

THE MEDICO-LEGAL SOCIETY OF CHICAGO. THE COOK COUNTY HOSPITAL CLINICAL SOCIETY. THE CHICAGO GYNECOLOGICAL SOCIETY,

THE CHICAGO PATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

THE OPHTHALMOLOGICAL AND OTOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CHICAGO.

THE

CHICAGO MEDICAL

RECORDER

JULY, 1893.

Original Articles.

HEALTH CONDITIONS OF CHICAGO.

BY MR. ERNEST HART, London.

EDITOR OF THE BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL.

I would ask you to excuse me if I fail somewhat in consecutiveness. I have found the subject I wished to bring to your notice, to extend over so wide a surface, requiring so much local investigation that I have not been able in the short time at my disposal to condense and arrange the facts avallable for treating it as I could have wished. I have also found that owing to the peculiarities of the political situation of Chicago, there is some difficulty in obtaining accurate and substantially uniform records. It is not at all surprising in a city of such rapid growth, where so many arrangements have to be improvised, that there is something. of a want of continuity, and yet it is a defect of which every member of the medical profession is well aware, that the heads of the sanitary department in this city are changed without reference to their capacity, without reference to their experience and without fault of their own, but simply because. one party or the other in politics gains the upper hand. Of course so far as the public health is concerned that is a deplorable state of things; no one can be responsible for the acts of his predecessors or his successors, and Icannot find in the city of Chicago, any such information as you can find in most other great cities of America and in all the great cities of Europe, information which is absolutely essential, not for medical men but for the citizens, for An address before the Chicago Medical Society, June 19, 1893.

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