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CHAPTER XXV
GETTING ON IN MY PROFESSION
AFTER graduating in March, 1882, in the same Opera
House where John L. Sullivan lost his temper and
knocked out Pete McCoy, I could not resist comparing
the two occasions. As I stood on that stage and re-
ceived my hard-earned diploma, I wondered what would
have happened had I taken Pete's job.
Returning to my old house at St. Paul, Minnesota, in
April, 1882, I soon became active in my profession.
During my tenure of office for nine years at the head of
the Department of Health of St. Paul, Minnesota, I left
a record of handling ten outbreaks of smallpox without
the spread of a single case, after the discovery of the out-
break. While in that position I was responsible for the
vaccination of over forty thousand persons without a
death. There was no mystery or secret connected with
my method of handling and checking an outbreak of
smallpox. I had compiled a health law from legislation in
force in the principal cities of our country and Europe,
added sections adapted to local conditions, and had it
passed by the State Legislature. That gave me the nec-
essary authority to act at once in an epidemic emergency,
instead of having to call meetings, discuss, argue, and al-
most fight a lot of politicians before I could get authority
to go to the expense of purchasing as much as a postage
stamp.
I had a right to be proud of this Public Health Act as
well as the manner in which it became a law. I had been
at the head of the Department of Health for two years,
had made a good record, and expected to be reflected.
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Hoyt, Henry Franklin. A Frontier Doctor, book, 1929; Boston, Massachusetts. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth143532/m1/220/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.