Excerpt from Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts, 1896The contents of the present volume comprise a report of the gen eral work of the State Board of Health for the year ending Sept. 30, 1895, and of that which relates to Water Supply and Sewerage for the calendar year 1895.This first portion, the general report, paged in Roman numerals, includes a brief statement of the work done under the statutes which define the work of the Board, and contains a summary of the vital statistics of the State for the year 1894.The second part of the report, paged in Arabic numerals, contains the fuller details of the work of the Board, under the acts relating to Water Supply and Sewerage, Food and Drug Inspection, Report ing of Infectious Diseases and such papers relating to special topics as the Board has deemed it desirable to publish.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.