Excerpt from Seventeenth Annual Report of the Provincial Board of Health of Ontario Being for the Year 1898 With December of 1898 there ended the first complete year in which, under the Consolidated Act relating to Births, Marriages and Deaths, passed in 1896, monthly reports of all deaths from contagious diseases are returned to the registrar-general by the 777 Division Registrars of Ontario, and through which returns the Provincial Board of Health is enabled to accurately and promptly estimate the prevalence throughout the Province of those contagious diseases notifiable under the Public Health Act, since the Secretary of the Board' is likewise Deputy registrar-general. The monthly reports published during the year 1898 represented returns from an average population of and of 626 registration divisions or 80 per cent. Of the population was reported upon, and 84 per cent. Of the municipal registration divisions. 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.