Excerpt from First Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Board of Health of the State of Colorado: For the Fiscal Year, Ending September 30, 1876 This first annual report, for the year ending September 3oth, 1876, is consequently for.the period of but seven months. Very shortly after notifications of appointment were received, the Board convened in the city of Denver, and perfected plans for the future; not however without serious apprehension that the undertaking might prove abortive in so nascent and sparsely populated a community as was ours at the time. Other discouraging features were the non-existence of local boards of' health (there being but one in the State) and absence of vital statistics such as can be gathered from returns of marriage, birth and death registrations. It was patent to each member of the Board that a reasonably reputable report could only be obtained through indefatigable exertion on the part of each member thereof. The anticipations of the Board have not been realized to the fullest ex tent, yet it is hoped that the accompanying report may not prove without interest or profit, either to the people of the State, or the many abroad who are now looking hitherward in the hope of obtaining relief from those bodily ills, for the amelioration or cure of which our climate has become more or less famous. The following summary outlines the accomplishments of the Board thus far. 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.