Excerpt from Ninth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Indiana: For the Fiscal Year Ending October 31, 1890 In some instances county health officers, when interrogated upon the subject, admit that some physicians are not reporting as required, but refuse to enforce. The law because they do not wish to offend their professional brethren. It is useless to say that such an excuse is puerile, and unworthy one who has assumed the duties of the office with the implied agreement that he will perform all the duties required of him. If he fails to do his duty he ought to be superseded at once by one who has the courage to require compliance with all the duties per taining to the position. 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.