Download or read book Eight Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Maine written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Eight Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Maine: For Years Two Year Ending December 31, 1893 The present sanitary organization of our State, as compared with that of any other state is creditable to the Commonwealth. The law prescribes that "there shall be a local board of health in each city and town in this State, to be composed of three members." Anticipating by a year the time covered by this report, during the years 1893 and 1894, of the 20 cities, 415 towns, and 79 plantations, reports have been received of the organization of a board in every city, in all but eight towns, and in all but twenty-two of the plantations. The quality of the work done by these local boards varies from excellent to next to worthless, the fault for the latter grade of work resting partly upon the character of the persons composing the local boards; partly on the want of appreciation by the appointing municipal officers of the value to our State and to each town, of cleanliness and the absence of epidemic diseases and a well-deserved reputation for healthfulness; and partly the fault rests with the people who fail to insist that serious public nuisances and other dangers shall not exist when their removable is practicable. An examination of the abstracts from the reports of local boards of health in this volume should convince an impartial enquirer, that the aggregate of sanitary work and sanitary watchfulness done by these boards is of inestimable value. But if the sanitary organization of the State places her well to the front, these local boards are hampered in their usefulness by working under public health laws which, in some directions, are far inferior to those of many other states. In fact, most of the work of the local boards, other than that of restricting the infectious diseases, is done under one short section of an antiquated law, viz.: Section 16 of chapter 14, Revised Statutes. 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.