A Survey of the Activities of Municipal Health Departments in the United States

"The purpose of this investigation was to obtain an approximate idea of the status of health department work in the United States; to examine the departments' programs and their financial resources, and to examine how great or small an advantage thy were taking of their existing opportunities." This paper was read before the Colorado Springs meeting of the American Public Health Association, it was printed in the American Journal of Public Health, January 1916.

FRANZ SCHNEIDER, JR. was sanitarian at the Department of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation.