Excerpt from Sixteenth Annual Report of the Board of Health of the City of Boston, for the Year 1887The number of cases of contagious diseases reported to the Board of Health during the year 1887 was against in 1886.The total number of deaths from the same diseases in 1887 was 813, or 232 more than for 1886.Small-pox has been discovered in but four instances. They were removed to the hospital, and all recovered. In 1886 there was one case, and no death.Scarlet Fever was more prevalent, especially during the last quarter of the year, and the type was more severe.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.