Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey . in rural dis-tricts and small towns and villages where hestill has to influence people to do away withthe insanitary privy and to install a pure wa-ter supply. We have learned to discriminatebetween dangerous dirt and dirt that is notdangerous, therefore less attention is paid toenvironment than in the past; but the tradi-tion of controlling public health through en-vironmen remains as an incubus on the healthdepartment. The second stage was concernedchiefly with the isolation of^ communicablediseases. In the last century, with the filththeory dom
Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey . in rural dis-tricts and small towns and villages where hestill has to influence people to do away withthe insanitary privy and to install a pure wa-ter supply. We have learned to discriminatebetween dangerous dirt and dirt that is notdangerous, therefore less attention is paid toenvironment than in the past; but the tradi-tion of controlling public health through en-vironmen remains as an incubus on the healthdepartment. The second stage was concernedchiefly with the isolation of^ communicablediseases. In the last century, with the filththeory dominant, contagion became recognizedas an important factor; it was believed thatif every persons who had a contagious diseasecould be quarantined such diseases in timecould be stamped out. We will need to iso-late cases of communicable disease and prob-ably will continue to do so, but the same stressis not placed on isolation as was given ft fewyears ag-o. 123 Journal of The Medical Society of New Jersey Published onthe First Day of Every Month. Under the Directionof the Committee on Publication Vol. XIX. No. 5 ORANGE, N. J., MAY, 1922 SubscriptiiDii, $ per YearSinele Copies. 25 Cents AGITATION FOR FREE CHOICE OFPHYSICIAN IN NEW YORK ANDWHAT IT LEADS TO* Eden V. Delphey, M. D., New York City. An article under the above caption waspublished in The Monitor, official pub-lication of Associated Industries of NewYork State, Inc., at Buffalo, N. Y., in De-cember, 1921, and circulated as a reprintby the author, Mr. Oliver G. Browne,secretary of the Self-Insurers Associa-tion, even while a committee of which hewas and is a member and appointed bythe industrial commissioner, was engagedin making a survey and considering thesame and numerous associated questionsregarding medical work, etc., under theWorkmen Compensation Law, Incommenting on this article, the writerwishes it to be distinctly understood thathe has no personal or other animus inthe matter; that the author may be asgood a
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