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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... portions of the city , where cleanliness , water , and good food , abound , which show very moderate bills of mortality . Hot weather and filth , which , combined , originate the thousand of odors which vitiate the atmosphere , destroy ...
... portions of the city , where cleanliness , water , and good food , abound , which show very moderate bills of mortality . Hot weather and filth , which , combined , originate the thousand of odors which vitiate the atmosphere , destroy ...
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... portions of the District , in order to discover the exist- ence of any nuisances detrimental to the public health , and maps were to be made which should show each building , the purpose for which it was occupied , the number of tenants ...
... portions of the District , in order to discover the exist- ence of any nuisances detrimental to the public health , and maps were to be made which should show each building , the purpose for which it was occupied , the number of tenants ...
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... portions of this District have been closed , or have been compelled to conduct their business so that no offensive odors shall escape into the external air . The efforts to suppress these danger- ous and offensive nuisances have met ...
... portions of this District have been closed , or have been compelled to conduct their business so that no offensive odors shall escape into the external air . The efforts to suppress these danger- ous and offensive nuisances have met ...
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... portions of the District has prevailed for a long period . Under the Code of Health Ordi- nances , and the special orders of this Board , the swine have been removed from New York and Brooklyn as rapidly as could be done consistently ...
... portions of the District has prevailed for a long period . Under the Code of Health Ordi- nances , and the special orders of this Board , the swine have been removed from New York and Brooklyn as rapidly as could be done consistently ...
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... portion of each market was devoted to the sale of vegetables and small meats , and was known as the country market ... portions of the desirable markets and surrounding sidewalk occupied by permanent stands or stalls , which are rented ...
... portion of each market was devoted to the sale of vegetables and small meats , and was known as the country market ... portions of the desirable markets and surrounding sidewalk occupied by permanent stands or stalls , which are rented ...
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Almshouse April August authority birth Board of Health building carbolic acid CAUSES OF DEATH cellars cesspool Cholera Infantum Cholera Morbus Cirro-Cumulus Cirrus & Nimbus city of Brooklyn Class cleaned Clear Commissioners condition Cumulus daily Deaths from Zymotic diarrhoea Diphtheria discharges disinfection duty Dysentery epidemic expenses fact fatal feet Female filthy Health Officer Hospital hundred hygienic infection Island July July 31 June Kings County lime Male marriage Metropolitan Board Metropolitan District months nuisance Occupation occurred odor offensive ordinances owner patients person pestilence physician Police population portion premises present privies proper public health Quarantine records registration removed Salary sanitary science Sanitary Superintendent Scarlatina Sept September sewers sick Small-pox street thereof tion Total Deaths Total Mortality Total Number Twelfth Typhoid Fever Typhus Fever ventilation Vital Statistics Ward's Island wards week Workhouse York and Brooklyn Zymotic Diseases
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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...