Excerpt from A Survey of the Activities of Municipal Health Departments in the United StatesThe purpose of this investigation was to obtain an approximate idea Of the status Of health department work in the United States, to examine the departments' programs and their financial resources, and to discover how great or small an advantage they were taking Of their existing opportunities. Such an exposition of the condition Of our local public health work should aid public health Officials to secure increased appropriations and should serve as a basis for future measurements Of public health progress.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.