Excerpt from Proceedings of the Third Annual State Sanitary Convention: Held Under the Auspices of the California State Board of Health, in the Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, April 15, 1895 Dr. C. A. Ruggles, President: Ladies and Gentlemen, you will now please come to order. It affords me great pleasure to introduce to you a gentleman whom most of you know personally, and many of you by reputation, and all will be glad to hear the words of welcome from his Honor, the Mayor of San Francisco, Adolph Sutro. I now have the pleasure of introducing him to you. 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.