Download or read book Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts (Classic Reprint) written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.