Excerpt from Fourth Biennial Report of the State Board of Health and Vital Statistics of Minnesota, 1911-1912 The administrative work is directed from the office of the Board in the capitol. It consists of correspondence, conferences. Advice, investigations, special work and an educational campaign. The possibilities along these various lines are controlled entirely by the funds at the disposal of the Board for such work. It is now a well recognized fact that the function oi' public health officials is that of preventing illness rather than waiting for the trouble to begin and then trying to cope with it. 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.