Biennial Report of the Mississippi State Board of Health
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Excerpt from Biennial Report of the Mississippi State Board of Health: 1886-1887
To His Excellency, Robert Lowry, Governor of the State of Mississippi:
One of the penalties of civilization in a country with large foreign commercial connections like our own, is its increased liability to epidemic diseases. Of late years these diseases have either occurred, or threatened too often with us that many of the States have deemed it of vital importa...