Third Annual Report Of The State Board Of Health Of The State Of New Hampshire

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ISBN 13 : 9780483348424
Total Pages : 338 pages
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Download or read book Third Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of New Hampshire written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Third Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of New Hampshire: For the Year Ending April 30, 1884 The third annual report of the State Board of Health is here with presented. The work of the year has been. Exceedingly gratifying to the board, because its results have been marked with an emphasis that has demonstrated its usefulness, not alone through the amount of executive work performed, but by the undoubted progress in sanitary directions through the prin ciples and precepts that have been given to the public. It is fair to assume that these results are in part the legitimate products of the labor that covers the whole period of our organization: indeed, had not the seed sown in the earlier existence of the board, as well as the later, germinated and shown evidence of growth, the encouragements for future work in this too little appreciated field would be infinitesimally small. The field in which we are at work, as well as the labor performed, must of necessity be vastly different from that of a local health officer whose work is largely executive. His mission is generally one of immediate necessity, - to remove some existing cause of dis ease, to assert quarantine and effectually hold a dangerous con tagious disease where he finds it, to heed the complaints of his townsmen on matters bearing on the subject of public health, in fact, to use every endeavor which comes to his knowledge to prevent ill-health in the community to which he is officially te sponsible. While we recognize all this as a part of the duties which we are conscientiously and legally bound to perform, we believe that the greatest and best results are to be accomplished by educating the people so that they will be better prepared to avoid some of the endless dangers that surround them. It is. 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.