Fourth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Wisconsin

Excerpt from Fourth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Wisconsin: 1879 Sir: In accordance with the provisions of the statute, we present you herewith the fourth annual report of the State Board of Health. For such details of the methods pursued in the performance of the duties imposed on the Board as are deemed of general interest, you are respectfully referred to the report of the Secretary and the papers accompanying it. The present year has been an eventful one in the sanitary history of the nation. The organization of a National Board of Health has long been desired by sanitarians, and its final accomplishment is due in part at least to their persistent efforts, and to the growth of that enlightened public sentiment "which demands with increasing emphasis the incorporation of sanitary into civil administration." The influence which such an organization must exert in strengthening the hands of the various state boards cannot yet be fully appreciated, but we look to it with hope that in it will be found a power which shall be "for the healing of the nation." The present organization is temporary, and in a measure experimental, one of its duties being to report a plan for an organization of similar character, which it is hoped will be permanent, and under which will be given opportunity for the study of preventable diseases, and for systematic efforts for their restriction on a scale hitherto impracticable. 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.