South Carolina Medical Association
Dr. Manning Simons presented a report  on State Medicine and Public Hygiene to the South Carolina Medical Association. This report was then presented to the General Assembly. With the yellow fever epidemic fresh on their minds, they passed the law to establish the Board of Health on December 23, 1878:



Waring, Joseph I. A History of Medicine in South Carolina, 1825-1900. Columbia, SC: South Carolina Medical Association, 1967.