Excerpt from State Boards of Health, Their Object and Use, Etc: Extracts, Showing the Views of Practical Workers and Eminent SanitariansDiphtheria is another of those diseases that has caused fearful, ravages among children. Statistics, gathered by the Board, show that certain-diseases are prevalent with this class of the popala tion. This is not always from anything in their occupation or surroundings. The causes for the frequency of death. Must often be sought for elsewhere. A study of the tables compiled by the State Board, that will appear in the annual report, will show that bronchitis and pneumonia are particularly noticeable for the fatal ending in cases of children, and this frequently is, in a large degree, due to a want of preper preventive measures.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.