Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Public Health in Springfield, Illinois: A Survey by the Department of Surveys and Exhibits, Russell Sage Foundation
The aim of the analysis of Springfield's vital sta tistics contained in this report has been sufficiently different from that of common practice to require a word of explanation and emphasis. It has seemed better to portray to Springfield its life and health losses in terms of its own people, rather than to com pute rates of mortality based on all registered deaths and compare these rates with those occur ring in other cities. To this end deaths of non residents have been excluded from the tables and text except at places where the contrary is specifi cally stated. Springfield's losses thus stated con vey to the citizens a more accurate and conservative picture of the city's public health problem, and are of themselves amply serious to justify any of the preventive procedures advocated in this report. The reader must be warned, however, against com paring the rates here given for Springfield with those published for other cities, unless it is specifi cally stated that the latter do not include deaths of non-residents. Otherwise such comparisons would show Springfield to an unfair advantage. 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.
