Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts, Volume 29Wright & Potter., 1898 - Public health |
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... decided changes which appear in column 4. The figures in this column are compiled from the official reports of local boards of health , and do not embrace the whole State . They represent the results which are shown by the reports of ...
... decided changes which appear in column 4. The figures in this column are compiled from the official reports of local boards of health , and do not embrace the whole State . They represent the results which are shown by the reports of ...
Page xxiii
... decided diminution in the ratio of adulter- ation , especially in the case of milk and spices ; and that cases of adulteration of articles of food with substances actively harmful or injurious to the health of the consumer were far more ...
... decided diminution in the ratio of adulter- ation , especially in the case of milk and spices ; and that cases of adulteration of articles of food with substances actively harmful or injurious to the health of the consumer were far more ...
Page xxxvi
... decided improvement . The manufacturing cities still maintain a position near the top of the list , with high infant mortality in 1896 , several of them present- ing even a higher rate than that of the ten - year period 1881-90 . The ...
... decided improvement . The manufacturing cities still maintain a position near the top of the list , with high infant mortality in 1896 , several of them present- ing even a higher rate than that of the ten - year period 1881-90 . The ...
Page 79
... decided upon , it will be submitted to the State Board of Health for approval . The Board has carefully considered the proposed plan , and has caused an examination of the territory to be made by its engineer . The plan provides for a ...
... decided upon , it will be submitted to the State Board of Health for approval . The Board has carefully considered the proposed plan , and has caused an examination of the territory to be made by its engineer . The plan provides for a ...
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... Decided . Slight . .95 7.90 4.10.0000.0682.0356.0326.66 .0020.0000 0.81 2.6 3.65.0016.0540.0372 .0168 .66 .0380.0006 0.82 2.9 Av .. 19 .79 7.58 3.42 .0027.0622.0350.0272.59 .0212 .0001 0.86 2.4 Odor , generally distinctly vegetable and ...
... Decided . Slight . .95 7.90 4.10.0000.0682.0356.0326.66 .0020.0000 0.81 2.6 3.65.0016.0540.0372 .0168 .66 .0380.0006 0.82 2.9 Av .. 19 .79 7.58 3.42 .0027.0622.0350.0272.59 .0212 .0001 0.86 2.4 Odor , generally distinctly vegetable and ...
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acre daily Algæ AMMONIA analyses of 1897 antitoxin APPEARANCE April Asterionella average Bacteria Bacteria per Cubic Blackstone River Board of Health Boston Brook cent Chemical Examination Chlorine Color Cons Crustacea cubic centimeter Date of Collection Day of examination deaths December Diatomaceæ Dinobryon diphtheria disease Distinctly musty distinctly vegetable Effluent of Filter Examination of Water faintly vegetable faucet feet filter beds filtration gallons per acre inches Infusoria July July 26 June Loss on Ignition Merrimack River Microscopical Examination minoid month Nitrites NITROGEN AS Albuminoid NOTE to analyses November number of bacteria Number of organisms Number of sample Odor organisms per cubic Oxygen Consumed Pond proposed pumping station reservoir RESIDUE ON EVAPORA Rhizopoda River sample was collected samples were collected Sediment Sept September sewage sewer Slight SUDBURY RIVER surface Synedra TION Total Turbidity typhoid fever V.slight Vermes Water Company water supply water-shed Zoöglæa
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Page xlii - To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General Court assembled.
Page 536 - 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 536 - 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) It any inferior or cheaper substance or substances have been substituted wholly or in part for it.
Page 536 - ... (3) if any valuable or necessary constituent or ingredient has been wholly or in part abstracted from it; (4) 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 xxi - Their action Is Intended to be prompt and summary. They are clothed with extraordinary powers for the protection of the community from noxious Influences affecting life and health, and It Is Important that their proceedings should be embarrassed and delayed as little as possible by the necessary observance of formalities.
Page 393 - The acids are the strongest nitric and sulphuric acids, mixed in the proportion of one part of the former to three of the latter by weight.
Page 537 - food," as used herein, shall include all articles used for food or drink by man, whether simple, mixed, or compound. SEC. 3. Any article shall be deemed to be adulterated within the meaning of this Act...
Page 537 - Provided, that the provisions of this act shall not apply to mixtures or compounds recognized as ordinary articles or ingredients of articles of food...
Page 536 - An article shall be deemed to be adulterated within the meaning of this Act: (a) In the case of drugs: (1) If, when sold under or by a name recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia, it differs from the standard of strength, quality or purity laid down therein...
Page 1 - ... to bear the expense of such consultation or advice, or of experiments made for the purposes of this act. All such authorities, corporations, firms and individuals are hereby required to give notice to said Board of their intentions in the premises, and to submit for its advice outlines of their proposed plans or schemes in relation to water supply and disposal of drainage and sewage ; and all petitions to the Legislature for authority to introduce a system of water supply, drainage or sewerage...