ANNUAL REPORT OF THE State Board of Health FOR THE Fiscal and Board Year Ending September 30, 1913. TO THE GOVERNOR. OHIO STATE INDIANAPOLIS : WM. B. BURFORD, CONTRACTOR FOR STATE PRINTING AND BINDING 1914 Received by the Governor, examined and referred to the Auditor of State for verification of the financial statement. OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF STATE, February 3, 1914. The within report, so far as the same relates to moneys drawn from the State Treasury, has been examined and found correct. W. H. O'BRIEN, Auditor of State. FEBRUARY 3, 1914. Returned by the Auditor of State, with above certificate, and transmitted to Secretary of State for publication, upon the order of the Board of Commissioners of Public Printing and Binding. B. B. JOHNSON, Secretary to the Governor. FEBRUARY 3, 1914. Filed in the office of the Secretary of the State of Indiana. L. G. ELLINGHAM, Secretary of State. TARONO Received the within, report and delivered, to the printer February 3, report-hŋd MEMBERS OF THE INDIANA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. T. HENRY DAVIS, M. D., President... JOHN R. HICKS, M. D.... H. H. SUTTON, M. D... J. N HURTY, M. D., Phar. D., Secretary.... . Richmond .Decatur .. Covington Aurora ..Indianapolis LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. NOVEMBER 30, 1913. HON. SAMUEL L. RALSTON, Governor of Indiana: Sir I have the honor to present herewith the report of the State Board of Health for the fiscal and board year, ending September 30, 1913. The law says: "They (State Board of Health) shall annually, on or before the first day of December, make a report to the Governor of their transactions and expenditures for the year ending September 30th next preceding, with such suggestions with regard to legislation as they may deem important in reference to the public health." The Vital Statistics Law commands: "The State Board of Health shall make an annual report of all vital statistics for each calendar year to the Governor, the same to be published with their report of transactions and expenditures for the fiscal year by the commissioners of the public printing and stationery." It is obviously impossible to furnish the vital statistics for the calendar year at this time, for the year is not ended. Even when the year is ended, December 31, it will take at least three months, and very likely four months (with our present office force) to classify, tabulate and analyze the thousands of deaths and births which have been reported to this office. It will be necessary, therefore, to hold the manuscript herewith submitted, or it may be printed, and the statistical report, when ready, can be printed and bound with it. We interpret the command of the law, "report of transactions," to mean that we shall give a complete account of the work of the Board, as appears in the minutes, but eliminating from said minutes such proceedings as pertain to mere routine affairs which must occur from month to month. I am, sir, with highest respect, Very respectfully, J. N. HURTY, THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT HON. SAMUEL L. RALSTON, Governor of Indiana: Sir The Indiana State Board of Health, in accordance with the statutes, has the honor to present to you herewith its Thirty- In this report is given in full the transactions and expenditures THE HEALTH OF THE STATE. The health of the State for the year of this report, as gauged by the mortality and morbidity records and the special monthly sanitary reports of health officers, seems to have been no better nor no worse than the preceding year; but in comparison with the average of the last ten years the general health was certainly A full and explicit analysis of the State's health can only be made for the calendar year, the records, reports and statistics for The public health work of the Board has been conducted with |