Excerpt from The Sanitarian, Vol. 38: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Preservation of Health, Mental and Physical Culture, January-June, 1897In Philadelphia this disease has now been persistently present to an undue extent for a number of years. During the past year there have been 51 cases, with deaths, as compared with deaths the year before.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.