Excerpt from Twelfth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Rhode Island: For the Year Ending December 31, 1890 and Including the Report Upon the Registrations of Births, Marriages and Deaths in 1888

To the Honorable the General Assembly:

In behalf of the State Board of Health, the Twelfth Annual Report of the Board is herewith respectfully presented in compliance with the Public Statutes.

The report is for the year ending December 31, 1889.

It is with great satisfaction that the board can allude at this time to the fact of an increasing recognition, on the part of the people, of the importance of health and of the means of preserving it, as indispensable requirements for the enjoyment of private and personal happiness, and for the best moral welfare and fullest material prosperity of the State.

The fact of the gradual progress and decided advance in the sanitary sentiments of the general public, is evinced by the action of the various town authorities, (who usually have the people behind them), in the enactment of sanitary ordinances, with increasing stringency and better enforcement from year to year, by the demands of the people for pure or good water, as shown by the eager inquiries as to the means of obtainment by water works and otherwise, by the more universal demand for the abatement of nuisances believed to be prejudicial to health, by the more general practice, in most of the compact localities, of the prompt removal of garbage and house refuse, by the largely increased number who seek after and read the various sanitary publications of the day, by the greater attention to persona cleanliness, as shown by the larger purchase and larger inquiry as to appliances for household ablutions, and by greater attention to drainage and other methods of the disposal of household and other sewage.

The public conception of the value of health, and the means of preservation, is undeniably much higher at the present time than it was ten years ago.

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