Annual report of the Metropolitan Board of Health of the State of New York. v.1, 1866, 1. köideAppleton, & Company, 1867 |
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... authority , shows that in Geneva from A. D. 1500 to A. D. 1600 , the probable length of life was five years , and in the succeeding century eleven years , and at the close of the next century from 1790 to 1800. it was thirty - two years ...
... authority , shows that in Geneva from A. D. 1500 to A. D. 1600 , the probable length of life was five years , and in the succeeding century eleven years , and at the close of the next century from 1790 to 1800. it was thirty - two years ...
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... authority of the Old Testament , should not have adopted some of the laws inculcated for the preservation of health . They forgot all obligations in this particular until experience had taught them that if they neglected them they ...
... authority of the Old Testament , should not have adopted some of the laws inculcated for the preservation of health . They forgot all obligations in this particular until experience had taught them that if they neglected them they ...
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... authority and the object of their visit , and while endeavoring to avoid giving offence , must make their investigations minutely . 7. If resistance is offered to the performance of their duties , they are to report the fact to the ...
... authority and the object of their visit , and while endeavoring to avoid giving offence , must make their investigations minutely . 7. If resistance is offered to the performance of their duties , they are to report the fact to the ...
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... authority for the use and instruction of citizens and contractors ; and that in all cases , original work be performed in the most careful and approved manner . Obstructions to the gutters by citizens in the erection or repair of ...
... authority for the use and instruction of citizens and contractors ; and that in all cases , original work be performed in the most careful and approved manner . Obstructions to the gutters by citizens in the erection or repair of ...
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... authorities are usually held responsible . 19. Swine . The practice of keeping swine in the built - up . portions of the District has prevailed for a long period . Under the Code of Health Ordi- nances , and the special orders of this ...
... authorities are usually held responsible . 19. Swine . The practice of keeping swine in the built - up . portions of the District has prevailed for a long period . Under the Code of Health Ordi- nances , and the special orders of this ...
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Popular passages
Page 432 - Trustee shall be elected for one year, one for two years, one for three years, and one for four years, and...
Page 444 - ... as its by-laws or rules may provide) from all public dispensaries, hospitals, asylums, infirmaries, prisons, and schools, and from the managers, principals, and officers thereof; and from all other public institutions...
Page 437 - ... take and file among its records, what it shall regard as sufficient proof to authorize its declaration that the same, to the extent it may specify, is a public nuisance, or dangerous to life or health ; and said Board may thereupon, enter in its records the same as a nuisance, and order the same to bo removed, abated, suspended, altered, or otherwise improved or purified, as said order shall specify...
Page 402 - That no person, being the manager or keeper of any saloon, boarding-house, or lodging-house, or being employed as a clerk, servant, or agent thereat, shall therein or thereat offer or have for food or drink, or to be eaten or drank, any poisonous, deleterious, or unwholesome substance, nor allow anything therein to be done or to occur dangerous to life or prejudicial to health.
Page 388 - That no meat, or dead animal above the size of a rabbit, shall be taken to any public or private market for food until the same shall have fully cooled (and all blood shall have ceased dripping therefrom) after its killing, nor until the entrails, head (unless the same be skinned), hide, horns, and feet shall have been removed.
Page 444 - And it is hereby made the duty of the officers, institutions, and persons so called on, or referred to, to promptly give such information and make such reports, verbally, or in writing, as may be required by said Boards.
Page 385 - EVERY person, being the parent or guardian, or having the care, custody or control of any MINOR or OTHER INDIVIDUAL, shall (to the extent of any means, power and authority of said parent, guardian or other person that could properly be used or exerted for such purpose) CAUSE AND PROCURE such minor or individual to be so PROMPTLY, FREQUENTLY AND EFFECTIVELY VACCINATED, that such minor or individual SHALL NOT TAKE, OR BE LIABLE TO TAKE THE SMALLPOX.
Page 442 - It shall be the duty of said board on or before the first Monday of December in each year, to make a report in writing to the Governor of this State upon the sanitary condition and prospects of the State...
Page 437 - Whenever any building, erection, excavation, premises, business pursuit, matter or thing, or the sewerage, drainage, or ventilation thereof, in said District, shall, in the opinion of said Board (whether as a whole or in any particular), be in a condition or in effect dangerous to life or health, said Board may take and file among its records what it shall regard as sufficient proof to authorize its declaration that the same, to the extent it may specify, is a public nuisance, or dangerous to life...