Excerpt from Reports of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council and Local Government Board, Vol. 1: Annual Report to the Local Government Board With Regard to the Year 1834, With Appendix; Presented Pursuant to the Act of Parliament As the officer appointed to make report to the Local Government Board, for the annual information of Parliament, in relation to matters concerning the Public Health, and to the inquiries and other proceedings which the Board, under the Public Health Act, 1858, may have directed in such matters, I beg leave to submit to you that for the past two and a half years, and par ticularly during the last year, the circumstances Of official and administrative transition, consequent on the Acts of Parliament of 1871 and 187 2, have been such that; no consistent scheme of report in general relation to the sanitary interests which are under the Board's superintendence has been possible to me; and the present Report, which regards the year 1873, must necessarily, even more than its two predecessors, illustrate the difficulty of the unsettled circumstances. 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.