Excerpt from Second Annual Report of the State Board of Health: For the Fiscal Year Ending November 30, 1879 The Board were consulted by various local health organizations with reference to refugees from Memphis, and in several instances where carpets and bedding had been used in connection with yel low fever cases in 1878, it was recommended that these goods lie unpacked until winter, and be then disinfected and aerated. This course was pursued in regard to unpacking the goods, which were stored until the winter months. There were quite a number of refugees in Connecticut from Memphis. 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.