Excerpt from Second Biennial Report, or the Nineteenth and Twentieth Annual Reports, of the State Board of Health of the State of Kansas: From January 1, 1903, to December 31, 1904Of the infectious diseases that usually prevail at this time of the year, the most prevalent in the state this winter has been scarlet fever. While it has not become a serious epidemic in any locality it has been general throughout the' state. The community where most complaint has come from scarlet fever has been in and around Baldwin, Douglas county. There was complaint about lack of rigid quarantine made by one or two physicians against the county health emeer, but on his attention being called to same by letter from your secretary he at once looked up the cases and established quarantine. The same thing was true in Marshall county. Complaint came from the mayor of Axtell that the health officer of Nemaha county, adjoining Marshall, was giving no attention to quarantine regulations in cases of scarlet fever that existed there. I sent the health o¿icer of whom complaint was made the following letter.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.