[The officers of health in the department of Moselle].

The 1803 law about medicine practice ended the anarchy appeared in this field and due to the measures taken during the Convention. It was immediately applied in Moselle and could regularize the situation of 101 medical practioners, 81 of whom were "officiers de santé". Paradoxically, this lax planed perpetuation of second-order practitionners who had, however, a limited practice, and did not have all the medicine doctor's privileges. From 1804, they were examined by departmental juries. Later, their recruitment conditions became more serious. They were practising in Moselle as well in the country as in the cities. Especially a lot, at the beginning of our century, they were progressively substituted by doctors. Their practice was often honorable, and one of them should occupy a quite special place: Pierre Morlanne, an obstetrician surgeon, well-known in Metz, who founded a Midwives Sisters' School. The relationships between medicine doctors and "officiers de santé" were generally correct, and the first one had kept them seats at the Medicine Doctors association of Moselle, created in 1852. However, medicine doctors were careful in "officiers de santé" exercice and did not hesitate to intervene in case of going worse. ...