Excerpt from Tenth Annual Report of the Board of Health of the State of New Jersey: And Report of the Bureau of Vital Statistics, 1886During the decade which has now nearly passed since this Board was established, the progress of sanitary science and art has been among the most important and notable achievements of the age.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.