Excerpt from Proceedings of the Conference of Sanitary Officers of the State of New York: Held at the Capitol, Albany, October 4, 5, 1905Perhaps you will allow me to disregard the ordinary precedent on these occasions. It may be that the Opening address Of this conference has commonly surveyed the present position Of those questions with which your society is accustomed to deal or which it watches with interest. But, as Lord Rosebery once said, speaking as I do in the presence of many who in the various departments will discuss such subjects with ripe authority of knowledge and experience, I should feel it presumptuous in me to poise a light sentence or venture a Shallow conjecture where my hearers can for themselves sound the very depth and perhaps approximate solution.I can offer them no fresh contribution to your knowledge. I can only, as it were, set in motion my small share Of electric current of sympathy and interest, which is surely not the least valuable of the features of this conference.I will, then, if you please, attempt this afternoon to outline in some measure the present policy Of the Department, to con sider the various means Of increasing the efficiency Of our work, and the methods to be adopted in overcoming the Obstacles that greed, indifference and ignorance erect against our advance. And I would do SO without the slightest pretention of having anything original to advance.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.