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Excerpt from Ninth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Ohio: For the Year Ending October 31, 1894 Small-pox manifested during the year a decided tendency to become epidemiqandhasnotbeensopmvalentin the United States since the epidemic years 1882-3. The disease became firmly established in the city of Chicago, and still lingers there. During the year 1894 there were cases of and deaths from small-pox in that city. Lines of connect ing railways bring our State into such olose relationship with Chicago that an unchecked epidemic of small-pox in that city is a serious menace to Ohio. There are over nine hundred sweatshops in Chicago where oloth lag and other textile fabrics are made. Small-pox invaded the sweatshop district during 1893, and as Ohio purchases a large amount of clothing from Chicago it was feared that the disease would be introduced through this medium. At the instance of the Ohio Board a meeting of State health officials was held in Chicago, May 10, with the view of learning the exact situation as regarded small-pox. And the danger of its impor tation to other states. 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.