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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... four hundred streets . After this the city was rebuilt , with more roomy houses and broader streets , and the plague never returned again . The imperfect drainage still exposed the city to fevers and dysenteries , and from the former ...
... four hundred streets . After this the city was rebuilt , with more roomy houses and broader streets , and the plague never returned again . The imperfect drainage still exposed the city to fevers and dysenteries , and from the former ...
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... four years of their life , show the external signs of this diseased constitution ; but it exists , and undoubtedly exerts a depressing influence , and renders the child less able to bear up against the destructive tendencies of disease ...
... four years of their life , show the external signs of this diseased constitution ; but it exists , and undoubtedly exerts a depressing influence , and renders the child less able to bear up against the destructive tendencies of disease ...
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... four years , the said office of Sanitary Commissioner . Having taken the oath prescribed for State officers , the Com- missioners received from the Secretary of State , certificates of appointment for their respective terms of office ...
... four years , the said office of Sanitary Commissioner . Having taken the oath prescribed for State officers , the Com- missioners received from the Secretary of State , certificates of appointment for their respective terms of office ...
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... four hundred hogs , and many of the largest ones are near the county buildings , in which there are usually two thousand persons , who are compelled to breathe an atmosphere vitiated by the most foul odors . It is hoped , that on or ...
... four hundred hogs , and many of the largest ones are near the county buildings , in which there are usually two thousand persons , who are compelled to breathe an atmosphere vitiated by the most foul odors . It is hoped , that on or ...
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... four of these structures , viz .: Catharine , Fulton , Franklin and Washington Markets . The latter has within a few years been twice indicted by the Grand Jury as a public nuisance , and the others richly deserve the same condemnation ...
... four of these structures , viz .: Catharine , Fulton , Franklin and Washington Markets . The latter has within a few years been twice indicted by the Grand Jury as a public nuisance , and the others richly deserve the same condemnation ...
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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...