Excerpt from Seventh Annual Report of the State Board of Health, of the State of Rhode Island, for the Year Ending December 31, 1884: And Including the Report Upon Births, Marriages and Deaths in 1883Accounts of labor in the department of contagious and infectious diseases of domestic animals, which have been made at greater length and detail in the quarterly reports at the regular meetings, are pre sented in brief statements in the body of the published report. The employment of some portion of one hundred and thirty-eight days, in the examination or investigation of cases or suspected cases Of such diseases in useful domesticated animals, very largely among horses, is evidence of the' attention given to that department of labor.The reports from towns in relation to sanitary improvements and other measures for the promotion of public health, and the meteoro logical tables, are substantially the same in general plan as those pre sented in the preceding report of the Board.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.