Excerpt from The Health Bulletin, Vol. 42: January, 1927 Sometime ago Surgeon General Cum ming of the U. S. Public Health Service announced that National Negro Health Week would be observed this year from April 3 to 11. The U. S. Public Health Service and all of the different state boards of health throughout the coun try heartily endorse the observance of this week. One notable item which is deserving especial mention is the very hopeful announcement by the Surgeon General that the death rate in some Southern States among the negroes had very rapidly decreased during the past few years. 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.