Office of the Secretary of the State Board of Health, Lansing, Michigan, December, 1877. To HON. CHARLES M. CROSWELL, Governor of Michigan: SIR-In compliance with the laws of this State, I present to you the accom panying Report for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1877. Very respectfully, HENRY B. BAKER, Secretary of the State Board of Health. 4 RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD RELATIVE TO PAPERS PUBLISHED IN ITS ANNUAL REPORT. Resolved, That no papers shall be published in the Annual Report of this Board except such as are ordered or approved for purposes of such publication by a majority of the members of the Board; and that any such paper shall be published over the signature of the writer, who is entitled to the credit of its production, as well as responsible for the statements of facts and opinions expressed therein. CONTENTS. PAGE. Circulars, Blank Forms for Returns, etc., sent out from the Office of the xiv-xxxix Dissemination of Information,-Fiscal year 1877, Correspondence, Reports and Documents distributed, etc. xxvii-xxxix Document on the Restriction and Prevention of Scarlet Fever. Special Reports and Communications, Outbreaks of Typhoid Fever and Sear- let Fever, Sickness due to Emanations from Decomposing Organic Mat- Inspection of Illuminating Oils in Michigan: Report by Perry Averill, State Report of Proceedings of the Health Department of the American Social Science Association (Saratoga Meeting): Paper by Hon. LeRoy Parker. Small-pox in the City of Detroit: Paper by Henry F. Lyster, M. D. Baths and Bathing: Paper by Henry F. Lyster, M. D. Persistence in Efforts to Resuscitate the Drowned: Paper by Robert C. Ked- The Water-supply of Localities in Michigan, its Relations to Health, Re- plies of Regular Correspondents of the Board. Relative to the Diseases in Michigan during the year 1876, Summary for the State, and replies by Correspondents to Circular 15. Weekly Reports of Diseases in Michigan, Year ending Sept. 29, 1877, Compi- lation of the Weekly Reports from Health Officers of Cities and from reg- Report of Proceedings of the American Public Health Association: Reports Special Danger Near Railroad Switches: Letter by Wm. Worsfold, M. D., curred. . Positions of Houses in Kendall, Van Buren Co., in which Typhoid Fever oc- House, with surroundings, in which were many cases of Typhoid Fever. Position of Houses in Lansing, where Typhoid Fever occurred. |