Biennial Report Of The Board Of Health Of The State Of Delaware

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ISBN 13 : 9780666081971
Total Pages : 50 pages
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Download or read book Second Biennial Report of the Board of Health of the State of Delaware, January, 1883 (Classic Reprint) written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Second Biennial Report of the Board of Health of the State of Delaware, January, 1883 State has not. Been so fortunate, however, in presenting his report on vital statistics tor the whole State, by reason of the fact that so many physicians and midwives in the two lower counties have failed to make their returns to the Recorders promptly. The positive value of vital statistics must depend upon the fullness and accuracy of the registra tion returns by the physicians of the entire State, and we hope for increased promptitude in the future. Vital statistics is of such importance that registration of marriages, births and deaths, and the causes of the latter, demand the'attention of the legislator, as it is the basis of all sanitary work. Without a knowledge of the death-rate of different localities, and the diseases which produced it, we are unable to investigate the sanitary relations which one part of the State bears to the other; we should learn the casual or local rela tions associated therewith; we should know where disease prevails in order to know what means or measures to be adopted to abate it we must know the ratios of births to deaths in every part of the State, in City, town and in the rural district, to know whether we are keeping up the population according to the normal law of increase or retro gression. This can only be done by rigidly enforcing the statute. If we are to judge from the data at our hand, it would appear that the deaths are in excess of the births, and yet we know this is not true. The subject of vaccination, which has engaged the attention of the Board of Health since its organization, has lost none of its interest, and the Board again reaffirms and reindorses the wisdom of its con elusions heretofore expressed, believing that of all sanitary measures this is the most striking illustration of what can be done by the use of the well - known and thoroughly tried prevention. It is one which the people atlarge understand, and the value of which is so patent as to be appreciated by many who do not recognize the importance of other means as preventive of some other diseases. The world's judgment holds to the protective power of vaccination against a dis ease which is not only widespread, but fatal, and we believe it should not be left to the discretion, whim, or choice of individual citizens, whether they will avail themselves of its protective power, but theduty of the State to protect the innocent and helpless against the ignorant or indifferent. 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.