Fifteenth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Rhode Island, for the Year Ending December 31, 1893

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fifteenth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Rhode Island, for the Year Ending December 31, 1893: And Including the Report Upon the Registration of Birth, Marriages and Deaths in 1891 Compared with January, 1891, the general amount of sickness was very much larger in January, 1892, the cases of bronchitis and pneu monia being reported as having an excess in numbers of from two to three times as many in 1892, the excess being caused by the epidemic influenza. Compared with the corresponding month in 1891, the atmospheric pressure was nearly the same; the mean temperature was two degrees higher; the mean amount of cloud one-tenth greater; the amount of melted snow and rain one-half inch more in 1892. The amount Of snow fall was four inches less in January, 1892. 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.