Excerpt from Annual Report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, Year Ended June 30, 1909, Vol. 3: Report of the Health Officer The health department is not primarily a revenue-producing branch of the District government. As an incident to its work, however, a considerable amount Of money finds its way into the District treasury, as shown by the following statement: Revenues deri ved from the operations of the health department during the fiscal year 1908 - 9. 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.