Excerpt from Nineteenth Annual Report of the Provincial Board of Health of Ontario, Being for the Year 1900The Provincial Board of Health desires herewith to present for your approval its Annual Report for the year 1900, being for the eighteenth year since the Board was organized.It gives the Board much pleasure to inform you that the public health of the Province at the close of the year and the century is such as to give cause for great thank fulness on the part of our people to the Giver of Good, and of much satisfaction on the part of your Government, who have shown a constant interest in the welfare of the people The Province has for so many years been free from the ravages of any of the great death dealing epidemics, which in the earlier years of immigration and settlement in Canada were not infrequently occasioned by invasion from foreign countries, that we have become forgetful of the superior privileges we in Canada enjoy in matters of health, and do not fully recog nize what valuable social and economic advantages accrue to every State where the people live on a high plane of general comfort and do not have their vitality lowered and their financial energies exhausted through the prevalence of fatal communicable diseases.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.