Excerpt from Reports to the General Assembly of Illinois, 1881, Vol. 1 General sanitation has, to some extent, been neg coted, for the reason already mentioned, although the report of the Board shows that this part of their duty has not been wholly ignored, attention having been paid to such subjects as were most pressing. In addi tion to the collection of vital statistics, the study of the water eu ply of our cities and towns is important, and will be considere more in detail. 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.