Excerpt from Fifteenth Annual Report of the Board of Health of the State of New Jersey, and Report of the Bureau of Vital Statistics, 1891 If we compare our condition with that of ten years ago, we have reason to feel that the State is fairly started on the high road of sani tary progress. If, however, we compare our present status with that of most English cities and rural districts, or even with a few advanced cities in our country, we have reason to deplore the distance we still are from reaching the models before us, and to impress the need there is of more active and thorough administration and execution of sani tary laws. There is no subject which more concerns the whole people. 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.