Excerpt from Second Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Rhode Island: For the Year Ending Dec. 31, 1879 Of the causes of death, a considerable number of summaries and synopses for long periods Of years are given, presenting various com parisons, and showing the various relations of the causes, with com ments. It had been the design Of the Secretary to have prepared, as an appendix to this Report, a summary Of the Vital Statistics of the State for the year 1879; but up to this date, and the completion of the press work of the Report, of the Secretary, the Registration Re turns for that year have not all been received from the towns. 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.