Report of the Department of Health of the City of Chicago1867-69 contains a sanitary history of Chicago from 1833 to 1870. |
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... were thirty cases and nine deaths in April ; twenty - two cases , four deaths in May , and thirty - nine cases , ten deaths in June . Energetic vaccination , supplemented by the warm weather , caused 6 REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.
... were thirty cases and nine deaths in April ; twenty - two cases , four deaths in May , and thirty - nine cases , ten deaths in June . Energetic vaccination , supplemented by the warm weather , caused 6 REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.
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... caused a decrease in the disease , when the Oc- tober immigration movement set in with an even more than usual ... deaths , in March , to one hundred and thirty - three cases and thirty - nine deaths ; in May to one hundred and sixty ...
... caused a decrease in the disease , when the Oc- tober immigration movement set in with an even more than usual ... deaths , in March , to one hundred and thirty - three cases and thirty - nine deaths ; in May to one hundred and sixty ...
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... .. 5 5 30 25 5 Marble and stone ... 35 Matches .... 2 Meat markets . 706 Metals and metallic goods .. 11 35 525 525 706 2405 1955 250 $ 40 11 175 175 6 CAUSES OF DEATH . February March April . May . OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO . 65.
... .. 5 5 30 25 5 Marble and stone ... 35 Matches .... 2 Meat markets . 706 Metals and metallic goods .. 11 35 525 525 706 2405 1955 250 $ 40 11 175 175 6 CAUSES OF DEATH . February March April . May . OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO . 65.
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... death . The mortality of infants under one year of age , num . bered 4,059 ... death rate of 1881 was 26.11 per 1,000 inhabi tants , estimating the population at ... causes in 1881 , making 42.44 per cent . of the total mortality for that ...
... death . The mortality of infants under one year of age , num . bered 4,059 ... death rate of 1881 was 26.11 per 1,000 inhabi tants , estimating the population at ... causes in 1881 , making 42.44 per cent . of the total mortality for that ...
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Chicago (Ill.). Department of Health. year , against 5,136 deaths from similar causes , and a per- centage of 38.06 for the year 1882 . In 1881 the greatest mortality from these causes occurred in the 14th Ward , being 1,323 , or 20.35 ...
Chicago (Ill.). Department of Health. year , against 5,136 deaths from similar causes , and a per- centage of 38.06 for the year 1882 . In 1881 the greatest mortality from these causes occurred in the 14th Ward , being 1,323 , or 20.35 ...
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Acute Lung Diseases amount April August builders building CAUSE OF DEATH cent Cerebro Spinal Chicago Class Commissioner of Health COMPARATIVE connected construction Croup death rate December Diphtheria direction of wind Eighteenth employed ENDING examined FACTORY families February Females Fever fire Fourth habitation Health Highest temperature houses hundred improvements inches INSPECTORS iron January July June KIND light lowest Malarial Males March Mean reading Mean relative humidity mean temperature Measles MONTHS MORTALITY notices November nuisance occupants October officers Order persons Phthisis Pulmonalis pipes places plumbing population Prevailing direction prevent proper Public QUARTER Rain fell Rain or snow Range reading of barometer removed require retail rooms sanitary Second September served sewers Small Pox smoke snow fell Stores street supplies TABLE TENEMENT Third tions Total Twelfth Typhoid Typhus ventilation WARDS wholesale Whooping Cough Zymotic Diseases
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Page 89 - State, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in the sum of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for each...
Page 37 - No person shall hereafter erect, or cause to be erected, or converted to a new purpose by alteration, any building or structure which, or any part of which, shall be inadequate or defective in respect to strength, ventilation, light, sewerage, or of any other usual, proper, or necessary provision or precaution; nor shall the builder, lessee, tenant, or occupant of any such, or of any other building or structure (within the right or ability of either to remedy or prevent the same), cause or allow...
Page 8 - I. — The immigrant is a prime factor in the origin and continuance of small-pox in the United States — on the one hand, even if protected himself, often being the bearer of the contagion in clothing and other effects; and, on the other, if unprotected, frequently becoming a victim to the disease and propagating it to others. "II. — Local effort and expenditure, either by States or municipalities, are inadequate to the control of small-pox in any given community or commonwealth, so long as the...
Page 89 - Territory, such officer shall be fined in a sum of not *less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars.
Page 145 - That on and after six months from the passage of this act the emission of dense or thick black or gray smoke or cinders from any...
Page 145 - ... of any such boat or locomotive or the chimney of any building within the corporate limits, shall be deemed and held guilty of creating a nuisance and shall for every such offense be fined in a sum not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars.
Page 36 - It shall be the duty of the commissioner of health to enforce all the laws of the state and ordinances of the city in relation to the sanitary regulations of the city, and cause all nuisances to be abated with all reasonable promptness.
Page 27 - Section 3. It shall be the duty of any plumber or other person or persons interested in the plumbing work, after the completion of said plumbing work, and before any of the said plumbing work is covered up in any building or buildings, or on the premises connected with said building or buildings, to notify in writing the health commissioner or commissioners, that said building or buildings, or other premises, are now ready for inspection, and it shall be unlawful for any plumber or other person or...
Page 26 - ... inhabitants, to submit plans and specifications of any such building or buildings to the health commissioner or commissioners of such incorporated city, that the said health commissioner or commissioners may examine the said plans and specifications, for his or their approval or rejection as to the proposed plans for the ventilation of rooms, light and air shafts, windows, ventilation of water closets, drainage and plumbing.
Page 145 - The owner or owners of any boat or locomotive engine, and the person or persons employed as engineer or otherwise in the working of the engine or engines in said boat or in operating such locomotive, and the proprietor, lessee...