Excerpt from Twenty-Third Annual Report of the State Department of Health of New York: For the Year Ending December 31, 1902 I have the honor to transmit herewith the twenty-third annual report of the State Department of Health, the same being for the year 1902, with appendices. 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.