or always felicitous to utilize this privilege,
but our connection with the Board of Health
was not a perfunctory or merely complimentary
one. We found from the beginning an inclina-
tion on the part of the officials of the depart-
ment to treat us more or less like comrades.
Every night, during the first summer, I wrote

In the new activity for the promotion of pub-
lic health many campaigns have been waged
to popularize the study of social diseases. Edu-
cation is the watchword, and where emphasis
is laid upon the preservation of health rather
than upon the treatment of disease, the nurses
constitute an important factor. Appreciation
of this is recorded by the Commission which
drafted the new health law for New York
State ( 1913). "The advent of trained nurs-
ing," says its report, "marks not only a new

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