Beaver Mill: Our people as a rule are orderly and neat and prize health very highly. I think this state of affairs is in a measure attributable to the State Board of Health through their health officers.  Of course now and then one thinks these offices were created to make places for men, but this is the exception, not the rule.
Some of our public school buildings are not what they should be, but our people are waking up to the importance of providing suitable buildings to protect the health of their children, as well as give them a better knowledge of physiology than their parents have.
                                                                                GEO. T. HIGGS, H. O.

Elroy: An order was issued by the board in the spring requiring all alleys to be cleaned; an ordinance was passed by the council making it a fine of $5 for anyone throwing manure in the alleys.  One man has been fined that amount and made to keep the alley clean.
                                                                                B. C. SMITH, Pres. Board of Health

Mauston: In regard to suggestions for increasing general interest in sanitation, I think the existing laws sufficient if enforced properly. If it was possible to regulate the compensation of Health Officers commensurate with the importance of the office the service would be improved.  We are seldom ever called upon to exercise our authority, but what we create a houseful of enemies. If we call to inspect a foul privy, pig pen or cellar, we are usually asked to mind our own business, and saluted with "what are you sneaking  around here for; better look out for your own dung heaps," etc.  It is a dangerous business to question the cleanliness of the filthiest neighbor, and no Health Officer will discharge properly, the duties of his office without making enemies.  Hence, in my opinion, the officer should get pay enough to be a little independent, or else appoint some other than a physician, especially in small towns and cities.
                                                                                J. C. SMITH, M. D., H. O.

Mill Creek: Since the organization of the present Board I have had to begin at the bottom, as my predesessor had no record of anything we had done; I have distributed all documents sent me for that purpose.  In regard to your last appeal, I have been over the town pretty well for the purpose of removing obstacles that might endanger the health of the public.  Found everything much better than I expected.
                                                                                THOS. GROUER, Chn. B. of H.

Necedah:  This village the preent year has been and still is favored with the most intelligent, efficient and industrious Board of Directors that we have had in many years. Officers who have done more to prmote the sanitary condition of the place, than any of their predecessors.
    Old and deayed sidewalks were removed and replaced by new and substantial structures. A bacck streets and alleys were cleaned up and generally renovated by filling up with sand all depressions or low places where surface water mght accumulate and become stagnant; removing and burning all rubbish and filth which might harbor germs of disease, and to this precaution we attribute the absence of all contagious fevers, Dysentery and Diphtheria that have been very prevalent in the community in past years.
                                                                                F. A. CANFIELD, M. D., H. O.

Wonewoc: An epidemic of Scarlet Fever here in 1889 was due to the carelessness of some citizens of a town adjoining us.  The last two cases were caused by visits from a family just recovered from Scarlet Fever who came to see relatives here bringing the contagion in their clothing.