Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reports to the General Assembly of Illinois at Its Thirty-First Regular Session, Convened January 8, 1879, Vol. 2 Owing to the pressure of the work imposed by the Medical Practice act, the Board has not done much in the way of sani tary investigation, but they have prepared a scheme for a complete sanitary and topographical survey of the State, which will be placed before you for your consideration. During the yellow fever epidemic in the autumn of 1878, they did good service in assisting municipal authorities, and I am satisfied that the partial quarantine established at Cairo was very useful in hindering the introduction and spread of the disease, and in allaying excitement and preventing panic in the neigh boring towns. 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.