Excerpt from Annual Report of the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service of the United States: For the Fiscal Year 1925 In public health work the evidence 0 achievement is Shown by the absence of epidemics or their prompt control, when this is possi ble, and the lowering of the death rate, particularly the death rate from 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.