Excerpt from Fourth Annual Report of the State Board of Health, of the State of Kansas: From January 1, 1888, and Ending December 31, 1888The Fourth Annual Report of the State Board of Health for the year 1888 is herewith presented.The past year in our State has been one marked and memorable for its material wealth, extensive settlement, increase in population, and general prosperity. Every county in the State is now organized. The people in general labor for one common purpose: to build up the State, increase their own resources, and provide for the comfort, peace and prosperity of their own homes, But in adopting the measures to insure these desirable results, how little individual attention is paid to the essential requisites that will secure them, that is, the observance and enforcement of the plain and common-sense rules which will prevent disease and promote health. While the year has been noted for health, happiness, and comparative free dom from epidemics, yet where sickness and fatality have existed, they can be traced ordinarily to preventable causes.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.