Book excerpt: Excerpt from Thirty-Third Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Board of Health of the State of Michigan: For the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1905 Much of the work of the office naturally groups itself under three heads - the collection of information, the compilation of information so collected, and the dissemination of such information as will be of service in the restriction and prevention of disease. 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.