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Massachusetts. - partly surrounded by marsh , and within twenty feet of tide - water at highest tides . The water of the well has a marshy taste and smell . Another case in the practice of another physician occurred in the same ...
Massachusetts. - partly surrounded by marsh , and within twenty feet of tide - water at highest tides . The water of the well has a marshy taste and smell . Another case in the practice of another physician occurred in the same ...
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... feet , and during the summer the water will be frequently over- turned to the bottom by the wind , so that the matters dissolved from the bottom will be mingled with the water , and will promote the growth of the microscopic organisms ...
... feet , and during the summer the water will be frequently over- turned to the bottom by the wind , so that the matters dissolved from the bottom will be mingled with the water , and will promote the growth of the microscopic organisms ...
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... feet , and during the summer the water will be frequently over- turned to the bottom by the wind , so that the matters dissolved from the bottom will be mingled with the water , and will promote the growth of the microscopic organisms ...
... feet , and during the summer the water will be frequently over- turned to the bottom by the wind , so that the matters dissolved from the bottom will be mingled with the water , and will promote the growth of the microscopic organisms ...
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... feet from it . Well No. 8 is 1,200 feet from Well No. 6 , and nearly south of it . Analyses of water from both these wells showed a much larger amount of iron than was found in Well No. 6 , and in other respects showed the same ...
... feet from it . Well No. 8 is 1,200 feet from Well No. 6 , and nearly south of it . Analyses of water from both these wells showed a much larger amount of iron than was found in Well No. 6 , and in other respects showed the same ...
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... feet . If further examinations should show that this coarse material extended to a depth of fifty feet over a considerable area , there is little doubt but that the whole amount of water required for Attle- borough can be obtained from ...
... feet . If further examinations should show that this coarse material extended to a depth of fifty feet over a considerable area , there is little doubt but that the whole amount of water required for Attle- borough can be obtained from ...
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Page 697 - Whoever by himself or by his servant or agent, • or as the servant or agent of any other person...
Page xxviii - ... of them are found to contain vermin or to have been made in improper places or under unhealthy conditions, he shall...
Page 7 - ... sewage, having regard to the present and prospective needs and interests of other cities, towns, corporations, firms or individuals which may be affected thereby. It shall also from time to time consult with and advise persons or corporations engaged or...
Page 317 - Report of a Commission Appointed to Consider a General System of Drainage for the Valleys of Mystic, Blackstone and Charles Rivers, 1886 (State publ.).
Page xix - Thus a hard and fast rule, such as has been laid down in some districts where scarlatina has been present, that no child shall go to school from an infected house for three months after the disease has begun in that house, is not to be commended. It is indeed possible that under the circumstances of a particular...
Page xxviii - In any workshop as aforesaid, notify the board of health of the location of such workshop, the nature of the work there carried on, and the number of persons therein employed.
Page xxviii - ... the exercise of such manual labor in a private house or private room by the family dwelling therein...
Page xvii - More rarely, the same questions arise in connection with enteric fever, and diarrhoeal diseases which spread, not so much by direct infection from person to person, as indirectly through the agency of local conditions, such as infected school privies. 4. It will be seen that the article quoted above confers upon sanitary authorities an alternative power with respect to public elementary schools.
Page xxviii - ... shall be subject to the inspection and examination of the inspectors of the district police, for the purpose of ascertaining whether said garments or any of them, or any part or parts thereof, are in cleanly condition and free from vermin and every matter of an infectious or...
Page xviii - Furthermore, as it is rarely possible to provide effectual separation of the sick from the healthy within the homes of children of the class attending public elementary schools, it must commonly be necessary that all children of an infected household should be excluded from school; first, because otherwise such children might attend school while suffering from the disease in a latent form, or at an unrecognised stage, and, secondly, because it is known that infection may attach itself to, and be...