Excerpt from Twentieth Biennial Report of the Montana State Board of Health: For the Years 1939-1940, Vital Statistics for the Years 1938-1939The State Board of Health functions through eight divisions, namely, Administration, Communicable Disease, Vital Statistics, Child Welfare, Water and Sewage, Food and Drugs, Hygienic Laboratory, and Industrial Hygiene. The Board was created by legislative act in 1901. The Communicable Disease Division was created in 1919 when a law was passed creating the position of epidemiologist. The Vital Statistics Division was created by legislative act in 1907. The Food and Drug Division and the Water and Sewage Division were created in 1911, when the Pure Food and Drug Act was passed. The Water and Sewage Laboratory and the Food and Drug Laboratory were located at the State College in Bozeman, but when the State Board of Health Building was completed in Helena in 1919 these laboratories were moved to this building. The Child Welfare Division was created in 1917 by legislative act, and the hygienic laboratory was established in 1917. The Industrial Hygiene Division was created by legislative act in 1939.A report of the work of each of these divisions during the past biennium is enclosed.Administration. The work of the Administration Division is to co-ordinate the activities of the different divisions. Montana is a big State and the travel expense of the inspectors is heavy, and in order to keep down this expense as much as possible we have the inspectors of the various divisions get familiar, with the work of all the divisions so that when an inspector goes in to check up on food handling establishments he can also, in a general way, look into the public water supplies and the tourist camps and investigate complaints of insanitary conditions.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.