Excerpt from Fourth Annual Report of the Metropolitan Board of Health of the State of New York, 1869 Under this ordinance upward of four hundred retail dealers of adulterated kerosene have been brought into the courts of New York and Brooklyn. The number of dealers in adulterated kerosene is sensibly diminishing, as is shown by the gradual and very considerable improvement in the oils purchased for examination. 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.