Excerpt from Second Annual Report of the State Department of Health of Maine, and the Twenty-Seventh Annual Report Upon the Births, Marriages, Divorces and Deaths, for the Year Ending December 31, 1918 In accordance with section 3, Chapter 197, Laws of 1917, the Commissioner of Health submitted to the Public Health Council on July 3, 1919, his report on the work of the State Department of Health for the year ending December 31, 1918, together with recommendations in regard to health legislation. Complying with Section 4, Chapter 197, Laws of. 1917, it was voted at a regular meeting of the Public Health Council held on July 3, 1919, that the report of the Commissioner be approved and adopted as the second annual report of the Public Health Council. It was further voted that this report should include the twenty-seventh annual report upon the Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths for the year ending December 31, 1918, and that these Should be published together under the same cover. 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.