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Published: 2015-07-22

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ISBN-13: 9781331969884

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.