Abstract
It is frequently emphasized that the profession of public health was the result of the efforts of private medical practitioners to perform what seemed to them to be their civic duty. Certainly this has been true in Tennessee, for the Tennessee State Medical Association in 1877 sponsored legislation that established the Tennessee Department of Public Health. 1 It has been my observation that each new responsibility given to the department of public health has come either directly from organized medicine or from society, wherein the medical profession has acted in the capacity of counselor and spokesman. An outstanding example of this has been the recent development of a coordinated state-wide public health program, the purpose of which is to find, treat, and rehabilitate persons, especially children, handicapped by defects of speech and/or hearing. When one considers the importance of speaking and hearing in successful interpersonal relations, it is not surprising
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