Annual Report, Volume 5C.I. Hood, 1883 - Public health |
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... attended to . The rule adopted last year for cleaning vaults by the " odorless process , " has been faithfully carried out . The work has been carried on by two parties , bringing it into com- petition . Water - closets have been ...
... attended to . The rule adopted last year for cleaning vaults by the " odorless process , " has been faithfully carried out . The work has been carried on by two parties , bringing it into com- petition . Water - closets have been ...
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... attended with 173 deaths . The suffering , trouble , and anxiety attending the epidemic cannot be described ; nor can the expenses and losses , private and public , be easily estimated . Such another epidemic in Lowell we should not ...
... attended with 173 deaths . The suffering , trouble , and anxiety attending the epidemic cannot be described ; nor can the expenses and losses , private and public , be easily estimated . Such another epidemic in Lowell we should not ...
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... attended with the greatest violation of sanitary laws . Such places become in time the fountain - heads of disease , where its germs are generated and fertilized by filth , impure air , and poisonous gases . Here sickness and death ...
... attended with the greatest violation of sanitary laws . Such places become in time the fountain - heads of disease , where its germs are generated and fertilized by filth , impure air , and poisonous gases . Here sickness and death ...
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... attending physician should explain . LOWELL FELTING MILLS . Early in April , a petition signed by over thirty persons , owners of real estate , was presented to the Board of Health , complaining that the “ Felting Mills , " situated on ...
... attending physician should explain . LOWELL FELTING MILLS . Early in April , a petition signed by over thirty persons , owners of real estate , was presented to the Board of Health , complaining that the “ Felting Mills , " situated on ...
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... attended with far greater results . The evils of intemper- ance originate from a violation of sanitary laws , and must sooner or later draw the special attention of boards of health . Few are aware of the immense sickness and the great ...
... attended with far greater results . The evils of intemper- ance originate from a violation of sanitary laws , and must sooner or later draw the special attention of boards of health . Few are aware of the immense sickness and the great ...
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Accident Apoplexy ALDERMEN Andover streets Board of Health brides Bright's Disease Britain Broadway Bronchitis BULLETIN Cancer Cholera Infantum City Clerk CITY HALL CITY OF LOWELL City Physician clean complaints Concord river contagious diseases Convulsions Croup dangerous DAVID CHASE death-rate DEATHS IN LOWELL Debility Delirium Tremens Diarrhoea diphtheria Disease of Brain Disease of Heart Disease of Liver disinfectants District duty epidemic Erysipelas Felting Mills filth five Gorham streets grooms Hydrocephalus impure Infantile large number Little Canada manufacturing Marasmus Meningitis marriages measles Merrimack river Merrimack street milk month north of Merrimack nuisance number of deaths occurred OFFICE OF BOARD Old Age Paralysis Peritonitis persons Pneumonia rate of mortality removed report of deaths rooms sanitary agencies sanitary condition sanitary laws sanitary science scarlet fever School street Scrofula sewers small pox Suffolk superintendent of burials tenement blocks tion typhoid fever unwholesome vaccination vaults ventilation water-closets whooping cough
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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.