Excerpt from Transactions of the Third Annual Conference of State and Territorial Health Officers: With the United States Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service The following letter was addrest to the health authorities of each State, Territory, and the District of Columbia: Dear Sir: In accordance with the provisions of section 7 of an act approved July 1, 1902, to increase the efficiency and change the name of the United States Marine-Hospital Service, I have to inform you that the third annual conference of State hoards of health with the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service will be held at the New Willard Hotel, Washington, D. C., on Monday, May 15, 1005, at 10 a. m. Your board will be entitled to representation in the said conference by one delegate. it is requested that your board will submit a typewritten report of any State or municipal health legislation enacted during the past year which is of interest to the public health, and any other information of the occurrences of the past year in relation to public health, sanitation, or kindred subjects. This report will be for publication in the transactions, and will not be read at the meeting. It is proposed that the following subjects shall be discust at this meeting: 1. The national control of leprosy. 2. The methods of the transmission of typhoid fever. I would request that I be informed in advance of the name of the delegate who will represent your board. 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.