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Excerpt from Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts The following report of the State Board of Health comprises an account of its general work during the year ending Sept. 30, 1897, and of that which relates to Water Supply and Sewerage for the calendar year 1897. This first portion, paged in Roman numerals, contains a condensed statement of the work done under the provisions of the laws defining the duties of the Board. To this is appended the report, in brief, already presented to the Legislature by the joint board consisting of the Harbor and Land Commissioners and the State Board of Health, upon the restoration of Green Harbor in the town of Marshfield. The second part of the report, paged in Arabic figures, contains the fuller details of the work of the Board, under the acts relating to water supply and sewerage, food and drug inspection and the reporting of infectious diseases. Infectious Diseases. In the last annual report a brief table was presented, in which it was shown that there has been a general decrease, with a fair degree of uniformity, in the death rate from the principal infectious and preventable diseases in Massachusetts during the past forty years. From a maximum of 93 deaths per 10,000 living from these causes in the five-year period 1861-65 there had been a fall to 47.1 per 10,000 in 1895, or but little more than one-half. 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.