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Excerpt from Thirty-Ninth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts In accordance with the provisions of chapter 211 of the Acts of 1905, the following report of the work of the several departments of the State Board of Health is presented for the fiscal year ended Nov. 30, 1907, on which date the Board was constituted as follows: Dr. John W. Bartol of Boston, whose resignation, after five years faithful service, was presented in August, 1907, having been succeeded by Dr. Robert Y. Lovett of Boston: - Henky P. Walcott, M. D., of Cambridge, Chairman. Julian A. Mead, M. D., of Watertown, Gerard C. Tokev, Esq., of Wareham Hiram F. Mills, A. M., C. E., of Lowell, James W. Hull, of Pittsfield, Robert W. Lovett, M. D, of Boston, Hon. Charles H. Porter, of Quincy. During the legislative session of 1907, the most important act which was passed pertaining to the duties of the Board was chapter 537, which follows: - Chapter 537. An Act to provide for the Establishment of Health Districts and the Appointment op Inspectors of Health. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Section 1. The state board of health shall, as soon as may be after the passage of this act, divide the Commonwealth into not more than fifteen districts, to be known as health districts, in such manner as it may deem necessary or proper for carrying out the purposes of this act. Section 2. After the division aforesaid has been made, the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, shall appoint in each health district one practical and discreet person, learned in the science of medicine and hygiene, to be state inspector of health in that district. Every nomination for such office shall be made at least seven days prior to the appointment. The said state inspectors of health shall hold their offices for a period of five years from the time of their respective appointments, but shall be liable to removal from office by the governor and council at any time. 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 Ninth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts: January, 1878 Thirty-eight (38) think that some remedy, complete or par tial, is practicable and, of these, all but six suggest in a gen eral way what that remedy should be. 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 Thirty-Fifth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts The following report comprises the general or routine work of the State Board of Health for the year ended Sept.30, 1903, together with its operations under the food and drug acts for the same period, and under the acts relating to water supply and sewerage during the calendar year 1903. The first part, paged in Roman numerals, contains a condensed account of the work done under the laws defining the duties of the Board. The regular work of the Board is performed mainly under the provisions of three separate acts, - an organic act of 1869, establishing the Board; an act of 1882, providing for the inspection of food and drugs; and an act for the protection of the purity of inland waters, of 1886, together with the amendments of these acts, all of which have been embodied in chapter 75 of the Revised Laws of Massachusetts, enacted in 1901. The second part of this report, paged in Arabic figures, presents the fuller details of the work of the Board under the acts above referred to. The vital statistics of a given community constitute the most definite index of the general health of such community during any stated year or series of years. Measured upon this plan the health of Massachusetts during 1903 differed but little from that of either of the years immediately preceding(1901 and 1902). The death-rate of these three years was less than that of any year in the last half century and probably less than that of any year in the nineteenth century, since it is known that infectious diseases prevailed throughout the earlier years of the century with far greater virulence than at the present time. The number of deaths in the State in 1903 was 49, 054, which was equivalent to a death-rate of 16.32 per 1,000 upon an estimated population of 3,006,040. This was but slightly greater than that of the previous year, which was 16.17 per 1,000. 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 Thirty-First Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts, 1900 Record of Cases of Small-pox reported to the State Board of Health during the Year 1899, under the Provisions of Chapter 302 of the Acts of Concluded. 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 Thirty-Seventh Annual Report: Of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts The following report covers the work of the State Board of Health for the year ended Sept. 30, 1905. The report for the year ended Sept. 30, 1904, gave an account of the work performed in the field of water supply and sewage disposal during the year ended Dec. 31, 1904, and it was stated that, in future, the work of the department having to do with those subjects and that of all other departments would be reported upon up to a common date, namely, September 30. The Legislature of 1905, however, passed an act (chapter 211) establishing a new fiscal year, and providing that, beginning with the year 1906, all official reports should cover the work performed up to December 1, and be submitted on or before the third Wednesday of the succeeding January. Under this new order it would happen that, if the intended plan were carried out in the present report, the value of the reports on water supply and sewage disposal, so far as drawing comparisons of different years is concerned, would be seriously impaired, since the periods covered by the preceding, present and next annual reports would be respectively twelve, nine and fourteen months. It has been deemed best, therefore, to lengthen the period originally intended to be covered by the present report, and thus to diminish that which otherwise would have to be covered by the report for 1906. The arrangement that commended itself as least likely to impair the value of the reports for purposes of comparison was to allow the present one to cover the eleven months ended November 30, thus making the next, as well as all succeeding reports, cover one year. The report on the examination of foods and drugs covers, as in all preceding annual reports, the year ended September 30. That on the production and distribution and use of diphtheria antitoxin, which, in the report for 1904, covered the six months ended September 30,1 covers the year ended Sept. 30, 1905, as does also the report on the work of the diagnosis laboratory. The usual report on "Health of Towns" is omitted in the present report, since the annual reports of the local boards of health from which it is compiled have not yet been issued, and will not be available for some months. 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 Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts Four of these deaths, which occurred in the first days of January, 1903, were those of cases reported in December, 1902, and in reckoning the fatality of cases should be classed with the deaths of 1902. The total number of reported cases in the twenty-two years was and the deaths of these were 517, or per cent. The following table presents the data obtained from the returns received since and including 1888. The returns made previous to that date did not contain information of a sufficiently definite character to be included in this summary. Smallpox in Massachusetts by Ages, and with Reference to Vaccination, 1888 - 1904. 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 Thirty-Third Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts The foregoing table illustrates the extreme irregularity in the prevalence of the disease, the reported cases in each year varying from 1 to 778, and the deaths from 0 to 101. Sex. - The record of the distribution Of the sexes Of cases of small-pox has been kept from 1885 to the present year, and shows that the number of males attacked was 750 and that of females was 571, or in the ratio Of 132 males to 100 females. Fatality. - The whole number of cases reported Since 1883 was and the deaths were 215, or per cent. Condition as to Vaccination - Of reported cases which occurred since and including 1888, 589 were vaccinated, and of these there were 53 deaths; 682 were unvaccinated, and Of these there were 112 deaths. In 58 cases the facts in regard to vaccina tion were not stated, and of these there were 9 deaths. Ages - The age of persons reported as ill with small-pox 1s a matter of much significance when considered with reference to the fatality of the disease, and the existing conditions of the persons attacked with reference to vaccination. 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 Thirty-Second Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts, 1901 It is also worthy of comment that the circumstances in many cases showed a serious disregard of the laws relating to vaccination, Since 20 school children between the ages of five and fifteen years who were attacked in 1900 were unvaccinated, in violation Of the provisions Of chapter 496 Of the Acts Of 1898, section 11, and 18 out Of 21 mill operatives were also unvaccinated, in violation Of chapter 515 Of the Acts of 1894. 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 Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts The whole number of deaths reported in the State as due to cerebro Spinal meningitis during the period of nearly twenty years, ending with Oct. 1, 1897 (nineteen years and nine months), was or nearly 150 per year. In this summary the deaths from this cause in the fraction of the year 1897 are those which were reported directly to the State Board of Health by local authorities. The numbers for the years 1878 to 1896, inclusive, were fairly uniform, the maximum being 171 in 1888 and the minimum 78 in 1878. But in the first nine months of 1897 the number reported to the State Board of Health was 405, those in Boston alone being 184. 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 Thirty-Fourth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts The comparative immunity of the paper mill towns and villages in this epidemic is notable, when compared with the facts reported in earlier epi demies, especially in that of 1872 - 73, this fact being undoubtedly due to the greater care which such towns have taken to secure the vaccination of their inhabitants who were specially exposed to small-pox in consequence of the use of rags in the manufacture of paper. Occupations. -the occupations of persons attacked are not stated with sufficient detail to enable us to present exact figures. It appears, however, from the returns received, that women engaged in housework, laborers, teamsters, mill operatives and shoemakers were attacked in largest numbers. 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.