Public Documents of Massachusetts, 34. numberSecretary of the Commonwealth, 1892 |
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Page xxiv
... increase till the meadows are drained . " Norwood . " The Neponset River is a dirty stream and gives off an offensive odor day and night . Cannot state as to its effect on health . " Hyde Park . " Can attribute no definite illness to ...
... increase till the meadows are drained . " Norwood . " The Neponset River is a dirty stream and gives off an offensive odor day and night . Cannot state as to its effect on health . " Hyde Park . " Can attribute no definite illness to ...
Page xxvii
... increase of malarial troubles in this neighborhood for ten or twelve years past . Think it not due to Neponset meadows but to faulty sewerage . " — Mattapan . " Know of very little trouble that could be said to be attributed to the ...
... increase of malarial troubles in this neighborhood for ten or twelve years past . Think it not due to Neponset meadows but to faulty sewerage . " — Mattapan . " Know of very little trouble that could be said to be attributed to the ...
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... increase in the amount of water used would require a new source of supply . The water from the springs on the westerly slope of Mt. Tom is the best as regards quality , but the water from the other sources would probably be acceptable ...
... increase in the amount of water used would require a new source of supply . The water from the springs on the westerly slope of Mt. Tom is the best as regards quality , but the water from the other sources would probably be acceptable ...
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... increasing population , applied to the Board ( February 11 ) for its advice relative to the question of enlarging ... increase it may be found necessary to adopt some means of collecting ground water at a point so far removed from the ...
... increasing population , applied to the Board ( February 11 ) for its advice relative to the question of enlarging ... increase it may be found necessary to adopt some means of collecting ground water at a point so far removed from the ...
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... increase in the quantity might be made by storing the water of Vine Brook in a small storage reservoir , which it is feasible to construct , though at a considerable cost . The Board does not advise this , however , as the quantity of ...
... increase in the quantity might be made by storing the water of Vine Brook in a small storage reservoir , which it is feasible to construct , though at a considerable cost . The Board does not advise this , however , as the quantity of ...
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Acre Daily Albu Albuminoid albuminoid ammonia Algæ AMMONIA April Asterionella average Bacteria BLACKSTONE RIVER Board of Health Boston Brook cent Chemical Examination Chlorine Chlorococcus cities and towns Cons counties Crenothrix Crustacea Cubic Centi cubic centimeter Cyanophyceæ DATE OF APPEARANCE Day of examination death rate Diatoma Diatomaceæ Difflugia Dinobryon diphtheria diseases Distinct Effluent Examination of Water feet FILTER TANK Fitchburg Fungi gallons per acre Infusoria July June Melosira Merrimack River Microscopical Examination mill minoid Miscellaneous mortality rate Nashua River Navicula Neponset River Nitrates NITROGEN Number of Deaths Number of organisms Number of sample Odor organic matter organisms per cubic Oxygen Peridinium pollution Pond population portion Quantity Applied reservoir RESIDUE ON EVAPORA Rhizopoda samples were collected sand Sept sewage Sewage applied sewer Slight Synedra Tabellaria TION Total Trachelomonas Turbidity typhoid fever Uroglena V.slight Vermes water supply WEEK ENDING Worcester Zoöglæa
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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...