Annual Report, Volume 5C.I. Hood, 1883 - Public health |
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... districts of England over formerly existing rates . ” — Edwin Chadwick , Esq . , the highest living authority on hygiene . In the expenditures of the Board of Health last year , one item of expense for collecting and removing ashes ...
... districts of England over formerly existing rates . ” — Edwin Chadwick , Esq . , the highest living authority on hygiene . In the expenditures of the Board of Health last year , one item of expense for collecting and removing ashes ...
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... district in Ward four , New York . No fact in the history of sickness or reports of mortality is better established than that such tenements and districts are the hot - beds of disease , especially in summer . Infants die by the score ...
... district in Ward four , New York . No fact in the history of sickness or reports of mortality is better established than that such tenements and districts are the hot - beds of disease , especially in summer . Infants die by the score ...
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... . We have here not only the number of deaths in each ward , but the number in each census district , with the population . By this means we find the sickly localities , and the places where health is best preserved 22 REPORT OF THE.
... . We have here not only the number of deaths in each ward , but the number in each census district , with the population . By this means we find the sickly localities , and the places where health is best preserved 22 REPORT OF THE.
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... district compared with another , presents some striking facts . In Ward 1 , the district ( No. 2 ) north of Merrimack street , and west of Suffolk canal , including the houses of the Tremont , Suffolk , and Lawrence Corporations ...
... district compared with another , presents some striking facts . In Ward 1 , the district ( No. 2 ) north of Merrimack street , and west of Suffolk canal , including the houses of the Tremont , Suffolk , and Lawrence Corporations ...
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... district has been obtained from official sources , and the compiler is enabled to give the population , number of deaths , and the death rates in each district . The same description and tables are given as in the report for 1880 ...
... district has been obtained from official sources , and the compiler is enabled to give the population , number of deaths , and the death rates in each district . The same description and tables are given as in the report for 1880 ...
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Page 27 - In the case of food: (1) If any substance or substances have been mixed with it, so as to lower or depreciate, or injuriously affect its quality, strength, or purity; (2) If any inferior or cheaper substance or substances have been substituted wholly or in part for it...
Page 27 - If it is colored, coated, polished, or powdered, whereby damage or inferiority is concealed, or if by any means it is made to appear better or of greater value than it really is.
Page 43 - Commonwealth, shall provide suitable seats for the use of the females so employed, and shall permit the use of such seats by them when they are not necessarily engaged in the active duties for which they are employed.
Page 19 - ... person. But, on the other hand, it does not allow any one, whatever his circumstances or condition may be, to be driven from his home, or to be compelled to live in it in positive discomfort, although caused by a lawful and useful business, carried on in his vicinity.
Page 27 - In the case of food or drink. 1. If any substance or substances has or have been mixed with it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength.
Page 27 - If it is an imitation of, or is sold under the name of, another article. (5) If it consists wholly, or in part, of a diseased, decomposed, putrid, infected, tainted, or rotten animal or vegetable substance or article, whether manufactured or not ; or in the case of milk, if it is the produce of a diseased animal.
Page 31 - ... quit the premises within such time as the Board may deem reasonable. If the persons so notified, or any of them, neglect or refuse to comply with the terms of the notice, the Board may cause the premises to be properly cleansed at the expense of the owners, or may remove the occupants forcibly and close up the premises, and the same shall not be again occupied as a dwelling-place without the consent in writing of the Board.
Page 35 - ... or any other disease dangerous to the public health, he shall immediately give notice thereof to the selectmen or board of health of the town ; and if he refuses or neglects to give such notice, he shall forfeit for each offence not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars SECT.
Page 46 - Here, more than in any other area, "an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure.
Page 20 - In order to amount to a nuisance it is not necessary that the corruption of the atmosphere should be such as to be dangerous to health ; it is sufficient that the effluvia are offensive to the senses, and render habitations uncomfortable.