Excerpt from Tenth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Ohio: For the Year Ending October 31, 1895

This is the tenth annual report of the State Board of Health, and is for the year ended October 1, 1895.

Four meetings of the Board were held during the year, two in Columbus, one in Cleveland and one in Toledo. An abstract of the proceedings of these meetings is given in following pages.

The January meeting, held in Columbus, was a joint meeting of the State and local boards of health, the fifth of its kind. The proceedings of that meeting, although properly belonging to this report, were published in the ninth annual report, which was then going through press. Some very valuable papers, interestingly discussed, were presented at this meeting.

Health Of The State.

So far as reports enable us to speak, the year seems to have been one of general good health, except at its close, when typhoid fever was more than usually prevalent.

We must again deplore the fact that Ohio is without a proper system for the collection of vital statistics, which would enable us to present accurate data showing its healthfulness as compared with that of other states, and the healthfulness of its cities and towns as compared with one another. No one knows the number of deaths or the number of births that occurred in Ohio during the past, or any other year. Thousands die and thousands are born of whom no official record is made or can be obtained.

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