Excerpt from The Sixth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Health of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1911, Vol. 2 Of those discharged, one thousand seven hundred and eighteen cases or per cent. Were native born, while the nativity of the foreign-born are recorded as follows. 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.

Excerpt from Annual Report of the Commissioner of Health to the Governor of Virginia: For the Year Ending September 30, 1912 Steady and consistent progress has marked the course of public health work during the fiscal year ending September 30, 1912. The Commonwealth has been blessed in that there have been no serious outbreaks of communicable disease and the people are to be congratulated in that they have begun to reap the fruits of past endeavor in sanitation. One great victory for better health' has been won and advances in the war against other diseases have been made. Our people are more aroused than ever before to the importance of sanitation and are showing more interest in domestic hygiene than they have ever manifested in the past. More schools have been improved, more sanitary outbuildings have been erected, more model wells have been con structed, more towns have installed water supplies and Sewage systems, more general interest has been shown in health publicity and more pre cautions have been taken in the average home than at any time during the history of health work in the Commonwealth. Aside from the successful enforcement Of the new vital' statistics law, and the very remarkable decrease in typhoid fever, both of which will be outlined in detail, this report will be found a simple chronicle Of general progress, unmarked by signal victories, but unmarred by defeats. 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.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ...in water do not appear, as a rule, to exercise a marked influence in the promotion of premature death. The influence of water polluted with putrefying organic filth is seen in the production by it of fatal diarrhoea and dysentery, and in the propagation of enteric fever and malignant cholera. There is something inexpressibly revolting in the notion of persons and communities drinking water mingled with their own excrement, and yet it is one of the commonest facts of every-day life; and in addition, as we now know, excrement-polluted water is not rarely given to our infants and young children mingled with the milk on which they are fed. (c) Soil--The part of the soil in the promotion of premature death is as a source of pollution of the air we breathe and of the water we drink. The soil is the great laboratory in which the great mass of solid and liquid filth of those who live upon it undergoes John Simon:, Supplementary Report of Medical Officer of Privy Council and Local Government Board, .87 P-New Series, No. . its final decomposition and resolution into harmless elements. But when this soil becomes surcharged with filth its wholesome action ceases, and the changes which the filth undergoes within it commonly stop short at a period when its products are harmful to those living upon it. These products are taken up by the water in the soil and carried into the springs and wells, and they are also giv%n off into the air above the soil by the movements of the air within the soil outwards, as it is influenced by the varying level of the sub-soil water, by variations of pressure in the atmosphere, and by other circumstances which go to bring about the breathing, so to say, of the sub-soil. The atmosphere in its general aspects must be.

Excerpt from Nineteenth Annual Report of the Health Commissioner for the Year Ending March 31st, 1896: 28th Annual Report of the Department The general health Of the city was good, measured by the number of deaths, the total being exceeding the previous year by 715 yet it must be accepted as a very low mortality considering the increase in population, it being generally estimated beyond which would give the low death rate Of fifteen per thousand. 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.

Excerpt from Public Health Reports, Vol. 26: Part II. Numbers 27-52, July-December, 1911 He shall kee an account of all moneys collected and submit a report of same on form provided or the purpose, to the board at each regular meeting. He shall issue all permits and licenses as directed b the board. 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.