Dr. Peyre Porcher, National Library of Medicine
	An Address to the Legislature was prepared by special committee of the Board, Dr. F. Peyre Porcher, MD Chairman, Dr B. W. Taylor, MD and Dr. J. A Robinson, MD. The committee requested a budget increase from $2,000 to $3,000 in the third year of the Board.
	Dr. Peyre Porcher was a distinguished Charleston physician. He and Dr.Benjamin W. Taylor of Columbia, who  was the Chairman of the Board of Health,  and Dr. J. A. Robinson addressed the Legislature "on the Sanitary Needs of the State…in 1881." Listen to some of their remarks:
	Legislators...will vote supplies for a good many different and indifferent objects, but for others with apparently remote advantages, such... as the preservation of health, ... the sanitary fat ...will keep up for a time a mighty sizzling!
	... when a State Board of Health is organized and equipped... it can hope to add far more ... to the public welfare... to trace out and destroy the causes of disease, to protect the public from dangers and to compel the citizen,..., to take care of himself, his family and his neighbor.  It will examine everywhere into the economy of his household, the air he breathes, the water he drinks, the food he consumes.
	State Board of Health. Second Annual Report of the State Board of Health of South Carolina for the Fiscal Year Ending October 31st, 1881. Charleston, SC: Walker, Evans & Cogswell, 1881.