1981.037.001

It was the first general blueprint for the public health to be presented to a governmental body. It made 50 specific recommendations. Dealt with sanitation, protection of children, medical research, nurses' training,slum clearance among others. Note: A facsimiles. of the original ed. of the report (without appendices) pub. under title: Report of a general plan for the promotion of public and personal health, devised, prepared and recommended by the Commissioners appointed under a resolve of the legislature of Massachusetts, relating to a sanitary survey of the state. Presented April 25, 1850. Boston, Dutton & Wentworth, state printers, 1850.

publication place: Cambridge