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and the vicissitudes of illness and physical disabilities to the search for
and control of all the adverse circumstances to which they are related
as effects.
So comprehensive an interest finds its organised expression in the
public health administration of the local authorities, and the public
health report is an attempt to record the measures and results of
efforts in this connection.
The condensation of recorded fact presented in a page of statistics
is at best an indifferent picture of accomplishment, and its meaning
and significance may be perceived only in the accumulated results of
years of routine. Even so, and though much be the evidence of mere
failure, the tabulated statements are convenient milestones which
show at least the distance travelled though the end be discerned but
dimly.