Report of the Sanitary Commission of Massachusetts, 1850

ix, [3], 321, [3] pp. 8vo. Facsimile reprint of Garrison-Morton 1609: "Compiled by a team, but entirely written by Shattuck, this report was the first general blueprint for the promotion of public health presented to an American governmental body. Its first proposal was for the creation of state and local boards of health in an era when such state commissions were non-existent. A Board of Health was not set up until 1869, however. Shattuck has been called 'the Chadwick of America'. An abridged version of this famous Report appears in G. C. Whipple’s State Sanitation, Cambridge, [Mass.], 1917; a facsimile reproduction was published in 1948."