ALLIED PRINTING

TRADES COUNCIL

(RIBUNE PRINTING 00., OHARLESTON, W.

I have the honor to submit to you the report of the transactions of the State Department of Health for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1917.

Very respectfully,

S.L.Jepson M.D.

State Health Commissioner.

Transactions of Public Health Council..

7

The Evolution of Medical Legislation in West Virginia, Dr. W. W.

Golden......

19

Report of Commissioner of Health, Dr. S. L. Jepson..

28

Report of the Division of Preventable Diseases, Dr. C. R. Weirich,

Director....

40

Report of Work In Communicable Diseases, Dr. Harold B. Wood,

Epidemiologist... . .

61

Report of the Division of Sanitary Engineering.

81

Report of the Hygienic Laboratory..

108

Report of the Trachoma Hospital at Welch.

113

Report of Vital Statistics...

116

MAYO TOLMAN, B. S., Director and Chief Engineer.... Charleston, W. Va.

ELLIS S. TISDALE, B. S., Assistant Engineer...
ANDREW N. WARDLE, B. S., Assistant Engineer.

MISS HENRIETTA SIVE, Stenographer...

MISS EVELYN M. MILLER, Stenographer.
MISS ETHEL POPP, Stenographer....

Hygienic Laboratory.

..Charleston, W. Va. ...Charleston, W. Va.

..Charleston, W. Va.
..Charleston, W. Va.

.. Charleston, W. Va.

ARTHUR LEDERER, M. D., C. P. H., Chem. Eng., Director

and Bacteriologist

ALTON A. Cook, M. S., Chemist.

Morgantown, W. Va. .Morgantown, W. Va.

WILLIAM H. SCHULTZ, Ph. D., Consulting Pharmacolo

gist

S. F. TALBOTT, Laboratory Assistant.

DORSEY FARNSWORTH, Laboratory Assistant.
MISS NELL CHAMBERS, Stenographer...

. Morgantown, W. Va.

Morgantown, W. Va. .Morgantown, W. Va. .Morgantown, W. Va.