The California Public Health Officer

In college, as a micro biology major, she'd stay up late reading about yellow fever, tuberculosis and spanish flue. She taught herself french so that when the time came to move to west africa to chase disease one day would have the ability to communicate. The state of california had bestowed upon local public health officers extraordinary legal powers. Charity accepted the job but soon realized how few people in practice knew the law. Her office still had the original grates in the wall used to get fresh sea air into the patient's lungs.