Abstract
Today medicine—and particularly preventive medicine— is the property of all mankind. A progressive physician must be aware of his relationships to the civic and economic problems of the community and the nation. 1 This is the record of the active participation of a local medical society in the organization and guidance of a community health program. In the fall of 1922 a group of physicians in Fargo, Cass County, North Dakota, was successful in stimulating representatives of various civic bodies to consider the possibility of providing for the community an adequate health program in which the medical profession, the dental profession, public and private schools, the Red Cross, the tuberculosis society and the city government would all be asked to cooperate. This movement received its original impetus from the announcement of the Commonwealth Fund that it would establish its first child health demonstration in some suitable city in the upper
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