Report of the Board of Health of the city and port of Philadelphia. 1896Board of Health, 1897 |
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Page vii
... complete discipline , and too much commendation cannot be given to the officers and men for the faithful discharge of their duties . In this connection let me say that it will be greatly to the advantage of the City to further increase ...
... complete discipline , and too much commendation cannot be given to the officers and men for the faithful discharge of their duties . In this connection let me say that it will be greatly to the advantage of the City to further increase ...
Page xvi
... not sufficiently appreciated ; but nothing so conduces to the health of a community as an extensive and scientific system of main and intercepting sewers . To make the system complete it will require at your hands in the neighborhood of ...
... not sufficiently appreciated ; but nothing so conduces to the health of a community as an extensive and scientific system of main and intercepting sewers . To make the system complete it will require at your hands in the neighborhood of ...
Page xvii
... complete system of subsiding basins and a filtration plant that will answer the purpose , the question . of a pure and adequate water supply for our City , for many generations at least , will be settled . The supply and the quality of ...
... complete system of subsiding basins and a filtration plant that will answer the purpose , the question . of a pure and adequate water supply for our City , for many generations at least , will be settled . The supply and the quality of ...
Page 22
... complete electric lighting of the City from a police standpoint . 5. The construction of main conduits by the City for use by all companies using electricity in any of its varied forms . 6. For the purpose of the preservation of the ...
... complete electric lighting of the City from a police standpoint . 5. The construction of main conduits by the City for use by all companies using electricity in any of its varied forms . 6. For the purpose of the preservation of the ...
Page 68
... complete . The drainage and fixtures are of standard con- struction . The furnishing is of the best quality and specially adapted to its use . Convenience and simplicity have been carefully studied . These pavilions are the largest and ...
... complete . The drainage and fixtures are of standard con- struction . The furnishing is of the best quality and specially adapted to its use . Convenience and simplicity have been carefully studied . These pavilions are the largest and ...
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120 NATIVITY 95 Pure culture acid adulterated Adults AGES amount Anthrax antitoxin Apoplexy avenue bacilli bacteriological Bladder Board of Health Bouillon Bouillon 8 c. c. Bowels Boys Brain Bright's Disease building Bureau of Health butter c. c. Dec Cancer CAUSES OF DEATH cellar cent color condition contains contaminated by exposure Cyanosis December Department of Public diagnosis diphtheria disinfecting Division Erysipelas evidence of growth examination Females Foreign Girls hospital hundred Inflammation inspection Interments intubation January June Kidneys laboratory lactometer Larynx light and ventilation Liver Locomotor Ataxia Lungs Males Marasmus Measles milk Minors mins nuisances number of deaths patients Peritoneum physicians pollution Premature Birth Public Safety Puerperal Report rooms sample sanitary scarlet fever School Schuylkill river serum shows the number Spine Stomach street Table VIII-Continued theria Throat tion total number typhoid fever Unknown Urine contaminated Uterus Vaccination Vaccination certificates required Various bact'ria Ward yard space Ст එය ཎྜ
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Page 11 - ... shall not exceed one and one-half times the width of the widest street upon which it is built, and that all buildings over seventy feet in height shall be absolutely fire-proof.
Page 141 - food,' as used herein, shall include all articles used for food, drink, confectionery, or condiment by man or other animals, whether simple, mixed, or compound.
Page 142 - ... of a diseased animal: (6) 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 ; (7) If it contains any added substance or ingredient which is poisonous or injurious to health...
Page 55 - All principals or other persons in charge of schools as aforesaid are hereby required to refuse the admission of any child to the schools under their charge or supervision, except upon a certificate signed by a physician, setting forth that such child has been successfully vaccinated, or that it has previously had small-pox.
Page 142 - If any inferior or cheaper substance, or substances have been substituted wholly or in part for it; (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...
Page 143 - ... necessary costs and expenses incurred in inspecting and analyzing such adulterated articles of which said person...
Page 153 - Legislation to provide for the official inspection of this, as of other food products, and to insure that it shall be sold for what it is, and not for what it is not, is very desirable. Every reasonable measure to prevent fraud, here as elsewhere, ought to be welcomed. But the attempt to curtail or suppress the production of a cheap and useful food material by law...
Page iii - To THE SELECT AND COMMON COUNCILS OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA. GENTLEMEN : — In accordance with the provisions of the Act of Assembly of June 1, 1885...
Page 142 - If any substance or substances have been mixed with it so as to lower or depreciate or injuriously affect its quality, strength or purity.
Page 141 - No person shall, within this State, manufacture for sale, offer for sale, or sell any drug or article of food which is adulterated within the meaning of this Act.