[Gutenberg 31822] • Atlanta: A Twentieth-Century City

Excerpt from Report of Survey of the Department of Health, City of Atlanta, Georgia: Made for the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Committee on Municipal Research

Dear Sir:

Herewith please find my report on Atlanta's department of health. The emphasis upon the record evidence of work undertaken and work done is due to our conviction based upon experience that in making a preliminary survey we get our best results by noting what public departments attempt to do and what evidence they have of work done and work undone, rather than by actual field tests.

The report on the health department is presented under the following headings:

Part I. Efficiency of the health department as revealed by records.

A. Limitations placed upon the Board of Health by city code and ordinances that detract from its efficiency.

B. The use made of the powers given by the code to the health department.

Part II. Method and procedure of the health control.

Part III. Inspection of certain dwelling houses.

Part IV. Recommendations.

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