Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts, Volume 29Wright & Potter., 1898 - Public health |
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Page xvi
... numbers for the years 1878 to 1896 , inclusive , were fairly uniform , the maximum being 171 in 1888 and the minimum 78 in 1878. But in the first nine months of 1897 the number reported to the State Board of Health was 405 , those in ...
... numbers for the years 1878 to 1896 , inclusive , were fairly uniform , the maximum being 171 in 1888 and the minimum 78 in 1878. But in the first nine months of 1897 the number reported to the State Board of Health was 405 , those in ...
Page xix
... number of persons in each house , and the number who have been attacked with mala- rial fever at some time during the years 1895 , 1896 and 1897 . The whole number of small squares in each instance represents the number of persons ...
... number of persons in each house , and the number who have been attacked with mala- rial fever at some time during the years 1895 , 1896 and 1897 . The whole number of small squares in each instance represents the number of persons ...
Page xxxi
... number of marriages in each month of the year , the daily number in each month and the centesimal ratio in each month ( or , in other words , the number which would have occurred in each month upon a basis of 100 as a daily mean ...
... number of marriages in each month of the year , the daily number in each month and the centesimal ratio in each month ( or , in other words , the number which would have occurred in each month upon a basis of 100 as a daily mean ...
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... number 1,558 were males , 983 were females and the sex of 74 was unknown . The statistics of still - births for the past forty years show that their ratio to the total number of births living and still - born has been gradually ...
... number 1,558 were males , 983 were females and the sex of 74 was unknown . The statistics of still - births for the past forty years show that their ratio to the total number of births living and still - born has been gradually ...
Page lvi
... Number of prosecutions against offenders during the year , Number of convictions during the year , 65 • 64 Amount of fines imposed during the year , Number of packages of antitoxin issued to cities and towns , * Number of bacterial ...
... Number of prosecutions against offenders during the year , Number of convictions during the year , 65 • 64 Amount of fines imposed during the year , Number of packages of antitoxin issued to cities and towns , * Number of bacterial ...
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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...