' This coming year marks the -10th anniversary of the California Conference of Local Health Officers. During the 10 years of its life the Conference has created a new pattern for state-local relationships in public health, a pattern which has proved effective, productive, and satisfactory. It is the purpose of this paper to relate the factors concerning the initiation of the Conference, to trace the development of the Conference, and to describe its role in the pattern of state-local relationships in California.
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