Excerpt from Second Annual Report of the Metropolitan Board of Health of the State of New York, 1867 The danger to the public health of the Metropolitan Sanitary District from the introduction of disease from clothing and bed ding used by the Sick on shipboard having attracted the attention of the Board during the epidemic season of 1866, resolutions were adopted on the 8th of November prohibiting the landing of any clothing which had been exposed to contagious disease, until thoroughly cleaned and ventilated, or the introduction of any bedding which had been exposed during a voyage or otherwise to the poison of the typhus or typhoid fever, small-pox, cholera, or other dangerous disease. On the 15th of November, the attention of the Board was called to the alarming prevalence of typhus and typhoid fever at' the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, at the foot of One Hundred and Sixty-second street, North River, and at the Reformatory in Eighty-sixth street, between First and Second Avenues. The physician in charge of the former institution had. 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.