Excerpt from Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Maryland: For the Year Ending December 31, 1903

I have the honor to transmit herewith the annual report of the State Board of Health for the year 1903. The reports of the local boards of health will be missed from this report, all of them having been lost in the fire of February 7. The report on vital statistics includes all the more important data, but the analysis of the records is not so complete as is desirable, and the diagrams which illustrate the meaning of the cold figures are omitted. After the fire of February 7 we found ourselves under the necessity of reconstructing the tables for both the years 1902 and 1903. This is laborious work and very painstaking. Our other routine duties have been in the meantime no lighter than usual, so that we have felt obliged to send the 1903 statistics to press less completely analyzed than those of former years.

I have to record the death of Dr. John Morris, of Baltimore, for more than a quarter of a century a faithful member of the State Board of Health. No man in Maryland was so familiar with the history of public hygiene in America, and especially in the State of Maryland. Until the last year of his life Dr. Morris was unremitting in attention to his duties as a member of the Board, and his interest in the sanitary affairs of the State was unflagging. His death occurred in the City Hospital, in Baltimore, on January 29, 1903.

The then Governor of Maryland, His Excellency John Walter Smith, appointed Dr. Edwin J. Dirickson, of Worcester County, to fill out the unexpired term of Dr. Morris.

The monthly meetings of the Board during the year have been faithfully attended, and all the business of the Board has been attended to promptly.

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