Excerpt from Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Maryland: For the Year Ending December 31, 1912 In accordance with the provisions of Sections 5 and 6 of Article 43 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland. I transmit herewith the report of the State Department of Health for the year 1912. The report begins with the work of the Bureau of Vital Statistics, and shows that good results may be expected from the new registration law which became effective on July 1st, 1912. An appreciable improvement is noted, especially in the registration of births, during the second half year, and at this writing (October 31st, 1913) we have reason to believe that the State of Maryland, within a year, will be admitted by the Census Bureau to the United States Registration Area for Births. Admission to the Registration Area means that the Census Bureau believes the registration within the State to lack no more than 10 per cent. of completeness. To be counted as a registration State will not, therefore, satisfy the purpose of the State, as expressed in the registration law. Maryland has been in the registration area for deaths for the past eight or nine years, but the mortality is not fully accounted for in some counties, notably in St. Mary's and Garrett. In each of these counties the local registration offices have been taken over by the State Board of Health and operated for a time at the expense of the county. These two counties have thus incurred expense much in excess of the cost of the proper operation by their own agents, but both counties relapsed very rapidly within a short time after the withdrawal of the State. Our intervention showed that Garrett and St. Mary's Counties did not record, previous to that intervention, more than one-sixth or one-seventh of the deaths occurring. 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.