Excerpt from Eight Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Rhode Island: For the Year Ending December 31, 1885, and Including the Report Upon Birth, Marriages and Deaths in 1884 Herewith is respectfully presented the Eighth Annual Report of the State Board of Health, in compliance with Section 9, Chapter 83, of the Public Statutes. The Report is for the year ending December 31, 1885, and will present a general account of the work of the Secretary, under the advice and consent of the Board, and is included in the Secretary's report which will be found in the following pages. The decease during the year of David Smith, the honorable and much respected member from Washington county, occasioned a vacancy which was filled by the appointment of Henry W. Rose, M. D., of Westerly. Dr. A. G. Spragne was reappointed for six years from July 1, 1885. Otherwise than the appointment of Dr. Rose the personel of the Board remains as heretofore. 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.