Excerpt from Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Missouri, 1890 Experiences of the same kind on a small scale have been witnessed this year in Missouri, several outbreaks of smallpox having occurred in the State in localities where sanitary organization had been neglected, and the people were taken unawares by the introduction and develop ment of the disease in their midst. 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.