Excerpt from Second Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Transmitted to the Governor, December 1, 1886Resolved, That the Committee on Medical Legisla tion be and is hereby instructed to prepare a supple ment to the act establishing a State Board of Health and Vital Statistics, which shall give operative force to the clause which declares it to be the duty of the Board to insure the faithful registration of births, marriages and deaths, of prevalent diseases and Of practitioners of medicine and surgery in this Common wealth, in the several counties and in the Central Eu reau of Vital Statistics, and to report the same to the Board at its next meeting in November, in order that the bill may be introduced before the next Legislature.The report was accepted and referred for publication and the resolution adopted.The other standing committees reported progress. Dr. Edwards, chairman Of the Committee of Arrange ments for the State Sanitary Convention, then presented his report, which was accepted, and the thanks of the Board tendered to the chairman for his indefatigable and successful labors.On motion of Dr. Engelman. The Annals of Hygiene, edited by Dr. Joseph F. Edwards, was adopted as the Official organ of the Board, in accordance with the ar rangement proposed by the Executive Committee.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.