Excerpt from Thirteenth Annual Report of the State Board of Health and Vital Statistics of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Transmitted to the Governor, December 1st, 1897Sir: In compliance with the provisions of section 10 of the Act to establish a State Board of Health for the better protection of life and health, and to prevent the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in this Commonwealth, approved June 3, 1885, I have the honor to transmit the Thirteenth Annual Report of the Board for the year ending November, 1897.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.