Excerpt from Eighth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of New York: Transmitted to the Legislature February 27, 1888The report on an inspection of Port Chester village brings to light one great evil of'the past with which local boards are at present grappling, viz.: the custom of constructing private drains without any reference to a general system applicable to the locality, without regard to outfall, injury to neighbor or vicious in¿uence on the subsoil, air, or water. 'tis true, as is often remarked, our fathers got on without modern improvements, and we are to-day suffer ing from their neglect. The villages, towns and some cities in the State find the difficiilty of stamping out epidemic disease and of abating nuisances complained of enhanced ten-fold by reason of this neglect, which is boasted of by the ignorant and parsimonious as one of the great virtues of that primitive age.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.