Excerpt from Operations of the United States Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, 1902 Treasury department, 93, 19023. Sir: In accordance with section 9 of the act of Congress approved July 1, 1902, entitled An act to increase the efficiency and change the name of the marine-hospital Service, I have the honor to trans init herewith the annual report of the Surgeon - Greneral of the Public Health and marine-hospital Service of the United States for the fiscal year 1902. Respectfully, L. M. Shaw, ' 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.