Excerpt from Report of a General Plan for the Promotion of Public and Personal Health: Devised, Prepared and Recommended by the Commissioners Appointed Under a Resolve of the Legislature of Massachusetts, Relating to a Sanitary Survey of the State; Presented April 25, 1850 In testimony whereof, we have caused the seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, the third day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty nine, and of the Independence of the United States the seventy-third. 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.