Excerpt from The Sanitary Inspector, Vol. 9: January, 1896Two years ago the Committee on Hygiene of the New York Medi cal Society reported: The mortality from whooping-cough and its sequelae is so great (averaging 450 per annum in this city for the past ten years) that it would seem that greater precautions should be taken to prevent its Spread. - Sanitarian.One of the English medical officers of health records an outbreak of typhoid fever distributed to various families by root-beer which was brewed in a room where a child lay with that disease.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.