Excerpt from Fifteenth Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Maine: For the Four Years Ending December 31, 1909; 1906-1909 And this suggests a greater degree of liberality on the part of the government in its treatment of the publications of state boards of health. It would be but a slight concession to the cause for which state boards of health work if they were per mitted to depart somewhat from the rule of strict periodicity in the issuance of their bulletins when the exigencies of their work require such latitude. It could not, as viewed by the ordinary health Officer or citizen, make any difference what ever with the financial condition Of the postal department if such latitude were permitted. Still better would it be if the government would confer upon state boards of health the full franking privilege for the bulletins, circulars and leaflets issued by them - publications which should go into the hands of all the people and which mean SO much to their welfare and to that of the nation - and well could the general government afford to do this, postal deficit or no deficit. Circulars of the Board - From the beginning of its work the board has sought to carry its information and its helpfulness directly to the people by issuing and distributing circular-s in as large editions as it could afford, some for the special help of local boards, but most of them for the diffusion of useful in formation among the people. Aside from the blanks and other papers for the use of local boards, the following is a list of the principal circulars which are now kept in stock bv the board for use when and where they are needed. 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.

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1902/04-1910/12 include also the Report of the state Hygienic Laboratory, 1903/04-1911.