Fifth Annual Report Of The Board Of Health Of The City Of Boston

Excerpt from Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Health of the City of Boston: For the Year Ending April 30, 1877 It is our duty to lose no opportunity to impress upon you not only the present, but the immensely increasing, demand for a system of sewerage worthy of the name. We have not such a system to-day, and we can ill-afford to wait for the time necessary to make one. It is now two years since the City Council took the first, and a very important, step in this direction, by appointing a com mission of experts, who at an early day presented the Council with the groundwork, if not the best possible plan, for the construction of a complete system of sewerage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Excerpt from Tenth Annual Report of the Board of Health of the City of Boston: For the Financial Year 1881-82 In other words, while the total mortality has increased with the growing population from deaths in 1872 to deaths in 1881, the deaths of children under five years have absolutely decreased from in 1872 to in 1881, showing that while the total mortality has increased nearly one thousand, the mortality among children has decreased one hundred. During the same period the total number of births recorded in the city increased from in 187 2 to in 1881. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Excerpt from Fourteenth Annual Report of the Board of Health of the City of Boston: For the Year 1885 The Board of Health respectfully submits its fourteenth report, the revised ordinances requiring the several depart ments to submit their reports in the month of January, instead of in May or June, as was provided in the Old ordi nances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Excerpt from Eleventh Annual Report of the Board of Health of the City of Boston, for the Financial Year 1882-83 So few cases in our own city, with so much intercourse with other great centres of population where the disease has been so alarmingly prevalent, is due to the efficient legislation under which the Board of Health is enabled to act, prompt measures for isolation, thorough vaccination, and careful fumigation of infected premises and clothing. The decrease in the deaths of children under five years of age is highly satisfactory when the number of deaths of the past year is compared with the average number Of the previous ten years, or with the years 1880 and 1881. In the former year the number of infant deaths was and in the latter while in the past year the number was The percentages of the seven years previous show a steady and perceptible decrease. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.