Excerpt from Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Florida, 1917: Approved by the Board in Annual Session, April 18, 1918At odd times, and especially during the evenings, the men were given talks on communicable diseases, their method of transmission together with round table discussion of any san itary problem which appeared to be of interest to those gath ered about. Sewage disposal, water supplies, their method of purification together with the proper plan for the collection and disposal of garbage were discussed during an illustrated lecture by Mr. Simons. On another evening dr.i Watkins ex plained the importance of the collection of vital records, the details of the system employed by him in gathering together the memoranda so essential to the proper institution of health work as well as the indication of preventive measures against prevalent communicable 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.