Excerpt from Pestilential Foreign Invasion: As a Question of States' Rights and the Constitution; The Failure of the Maritime States Demands a Common Defence; An Address Delivered Before the Tri-State Medical Society of Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee, at Chattanooga, October 26, 1892 Most of the stations are under local control, and the efficiency and method of enforcement of the regulations vary greatly. The stations, taken as a whole, constitute our only defence against the introduction of plagues, and as a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, our prep aration to keep such plagues out must remain imperfect until such weak points can be strengthened. I think all the sanitary authorities in the United States agree that a department of public health at Washington, is a. Necessity that will doubtless claim the attention of Congress next winter.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.