Excerpt from Annual Report of the Department of Health of the City of Chicago: For the Year Ended December 31, 1894 It has seemed worth while to be thus explicit upon this point and to accept the minimum population of the Official Census in fixing the death rate since the phenomenal health fulness of the city continues to be the theme of incredulous comment by less favored localities. 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.