Excerpt from First Annual Report of the Board of Health of the City of Boston, 1873The ordinance relating to the public health, passed Dec. 2, 1872, provides that the Board of Health shall annually in the month of May or June, present to the City Council, a report made up to and including the thirtieth day of the preceding April, containing a full and comprehensive state ment of the acts of the Board during the year, and a review of the sanitary condition of the city, and they shall at the same time transmit to the City Council, reports from the Superintendent of Health, City Physician, and the Port Physician, covering the same period.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.