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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... Hospital in charge of The Order " Poor Handmaids of Jesus . " 5 Tenement House and Factory Inspectors . 5 Meat and Stock Yard Inspectors . 20 Sanitary Police Officers . DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH . CHICAGO , MARCH 1st , 1883 581426 OFFICERS. ...
... Hospital in charge of The Order " Poor Handmaids of Jesus . " 5 Tenement House and Factory Inspectors . 5 Meat and Stock Yard Inspectors . 20 Sanitary Police Officers . DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH . CHICAGO , MARCH 1st , 1883 581426 OFFICERS. ...
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... order to per- suade the various railroad companies to obey the ordin ance , and I am glad to be able to report that some have made endeavors to do so . With regard to the steam tugs , I have to report that some of the owners -for the ...
... order to per- suade the various railroad companies to obey the ordin ance , and I am glad to be able to report that some have made endeavors to do so . With regard to the steam tugs , I have to report that some of the owners -for the ...
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... throughout this city , in order to keep this class of buildings in as good sanitary condition as possible . There are a great many old buildings in this city which are unfit for habitation OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO . 47.
... throughout this city , in order to keep this class of buildings in as good sanitary condition as possible . There are a great many old buildings in this city which are unfit for habitation OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO . 47.
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... order to utilize this information and for the purpose of suggesting where sanitary reform and improvements are most needed in our city , I have deemed it proper to make special reports , by months and wards , on these features of the ...
... order to utilize this information and for the purpose of suggesting where sanitary reform and improvements are most needed in our city , I have deemed it proper to make special reports , by months and wards , on these features of the ...
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... Order 2 - Inoculated . Hydrophobia .... Syphilis - Congenital .. 46 Tertiary . Malignant Pustule . Order 3 - Dietic . Alcoholism - Acute .. Inanition .. Chronic Purpura ... Bronchocele .. Scurvy .... Morphine Habit .. Order 4 ...
... Order 2 - Inoculated . Hydrophobia .... Syphilis - Congenital .. 46 Tertiary . Malignant Pustule . Order 3 - Dietic . Alcoholism - Acute .. Inanition .. Chronic Purpura ... Bronchocele .. Scurvy .... Morphine Habit .. Order 4 ...
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Abscess Acute Lung Diseases amount April August boiler Bright's Disease builders building CAUSE OF DEATH cent Cerebro Spinal Chicago Cholera Class Commissioner of Health Croup death rate DEATHS FROM ZYMOTIC DEWOLF Diarrhoeal Diseases Diphtheria direction of wind Eighteenth Erysipelas FACTORY AND TENEMENT February Fever Fifteenth filth Fire apparatus Fourteenth Glass stainers Highest barometer Highest temperature Hydrocephalus inches January July June KIND OF BUSINESS Laryngismus lowest March Mean reading Mean relative humidity mean temperature Measles Meningitis METEOROLOGICAL MORTALITY BY MONTHS MORTALITY BY MONTHS.-CONTINUED Notices served November nuisance number of deaths October Order ordinance Phthisis Pulmonalis plumber plumbing population Prevailing direction privy vaults QUARTER Rain fell Rain or snow Range reading of barometer sanitary condition Scarlatina September sewers Small Pox smoke snow fell TENEMENT TENEMENT AND FACTORY tenement houses TENEMENT INSPECTORS Thirteenth tions Total Deaths Total Employed total mortality total number Twelfth Typhoid Typhus Uraemia ventilation 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...