Excerpt from Fourth Biennial Report or the Twenty-Third and Twenty-Fourth Annual Reports: Of the State Board of Health of the State of Kansas, From January 1, 1907, to December 31, 1908 The general health conditions Of the state are similar to those of past years. There have been no unusual epidemics, and the death rate is practically the same as it has been in the past few years. There is, however, a growing mortality from a disease not generally considered to be an epidemic disease, yet which registers such enormous morbidity and mortality figures as to be properly classed among epidemic diseases, and which Should excite our apprehension for the future Of our citizenship. I refer to the great scourge Of mankind, tuberculosis. From re ports received at this Office from health Officers and assessors it appears that there Were somewhere between 1200 and 1500 deaths from tuberculosis in 1907, the actual number reported by health officers being 995. Due to our inefficient and cumber some system Of collection of vital statistics, it is clearly ap parent that several hundred deaths from this disease have never been recorded, and thus it is safe to assume, based upon the reports actually received, that our death rate is as above indicated. In arriving at the number Of cases of tuberculosis existing in a given population, sanitarians have placed several figures for such computation, running all the way from four to ten. That is to say, there are from four to ten cases existing for every death that occurs during the year. Using, then, the lowest figure that is given by experts in the computation of the number Of cases existing in Kansas at the present time, we have four times 1500, or 6000. I believe that this is a moderate estimate and entirely within the bounds Of the actual facts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.