Excerpt from Annual Report, 1881 One of the most important steps forward in sanitary education, the greatest very possibly, ever taken in this State is the announce ment of the Department of Education that hereafter regular and systematic instruction in sanitary science and public health will be given to the first eight grades in all our public schools. The beginning of this teaching will mark an epoch in the his tory of sanitation and the resulting benefits will be of inestimable value to the State. 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.