Excerpt from First Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Ohio: For the Year Ending October 31, 1896The subject of epidemic and endemic diseases, has received special attention from the Board. The fact of these diseases contributing so largely to the death rate each year, and that they are in great measure preventable diseases, makes this subject a most important one in sanitary work.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.