jeft Henry F. Vaughan 3-14-44 Office of the Secretary of the State Board of Health, 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. 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 Dissemination of Information, Fiscal year 1877, Correspondence, Reports and Documents distributed, etc. xxvii-xxxix Document on the Restriction and Prevention of Scarlet Fever. Resolution Concerning the Prevention and Restriction of Small-pox. Special Reports and Communications, Outbreaks of Typhoid Fever and Scar- let Fever, Sickness due to Emanations from Decomposing Organic Mat- Illuminating Oils in Michigan: Address by Prof. R. C. Kedzie, M. D. Law Relating to Illuminating Oils. 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. |