Excerpt from Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Conference of State, County and Municipal Health Officials: Held at Del Monte, California, October 13th to 16th, 1914One of the greatest surprises to me. When I' first assumed office. Was the total inadequacy of the compensation of our health officers. For example: There are not more than fifteen health officers in this State who receive $100 per month, about twelve receive $50 per month, and about the same number receive $25 per month, thirty-two of our health officers receive $10 per month, while with the exception of two or three who receive only fees, the remaining 250 serve without any pay whatever. Not only is this compensation insufficient, but very often the funds of the health officer are too limited to meet the expenses which he knows should be incurred, if sanitation and health are to be maintained. To procure these necessary funds he must go before his council or supervisors, describe conditions which confront him and request more funds. The members. Of the council or super visors are usually of the mercantile class. They know and understand the need for streets, paving, electric lighting for. Their city, or, if a county, the needs of the business or ranching interests, but they do not know or understand their health problems and either must accept their health officer's statement of them, or reject the proposal made very often they do the latter, or compromise by cutting down the health officer's request until the funds received fall far short of cov ering the measures he had hoped for.In spite of these differences and discouragements, I consider it truly marvelous the amount of energy and time our health officers devote to the performance of their duty and the results which they accomplish, and this constitutes, in my Opinion, another indication of the unselfish character of the work of the majority of our profession.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.