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Page 10
... less objectionable than during the summer , and for this reason the Board has permitted the use of some of this material for that purpose during the past winter . Analyses of street - sweepings , made with a view to determine their ...
... less objectionable than during the summer , and for this reason the Board has permitted the use of some of this material for that purpose during the past winter . Analyses of street - sweepings , made with a view to determine their ...
Page 31
... less than 75 per cent . of all who died were inmates of this class of dwellings . To the excessive degree of crowding which prevails throughout the tenement - house districts , and to the special degree of insalubrity which such ...
... less than 75 per cent . of all who died were inmates of this class of dwellings . To the excessive degree of crowding which prevails throughout the tenement - house districts , and to the special degree of insalubrity which such ...
Page 32
... less than seven square yards to each individual tenant resident thereon . No other statement could more forcibly illustrate the necessity for better methods of housing the industrial classes of the city , and especially the need of ...
... less than seven square yards to each individual tenant resident thereon . No other statement could more forcibly illustrate the necessity for better methods of housing the industrial classes of the city , and especially the need of ...
Page 52
... less satisfactorily performed in England than in any other country in Europe , and he explains this by saying that all persons , medi- cal men , clergymen , amateurs , druggists , old women , midwives , etc. , are allowed to vaccinate ...
... less satisfactorily performed in England than in any other country in Europe , and he explains this by saying that all persons , medi- cal men , clergymen , amateurs , druggists , old women , midwives , etc. , are allowed to vaccinate ...
Page 61
... less than two feet above the roof of such building , is a successful means of avoiding the stench from privy - vaults . During the year , the Board has ordered 1,362 of these ven- tilating flues , as against 370 the previous year . In ...
... less than two feet above the roof of such building , is a successful means of avoiding the stench from privy - vaults . During the year , the Board has ordered 1,362 of these ven- tilating flues , as against 370 the previous year . In ...
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April 30 Asthenia August Avenue birth Board of Health Board of Police Bright's disease Bronchitis building Bureau Cancer carbolic acid CAUSES OF DEATH cellars Cemetery cent certificate Clerk Colored condition contagious disease County death-rate deaths from cholera DECEMBER 31 diphtheria disinfection district drainage drains duty dwellings East execution fatal fever filthy gallon garbage Health Department Hospital infants inspection interments July June marriages Metropolitan Board miles nuisance number of deaths occupants occurred odor offal offensive officer ordinances Ovariotomy owner Paris Green permit person phthisis physicians population present privies privy-vaults proper quarter Randall's Island records registered regulations removed River Sanitary Superintendent Scarlatina Senile Asthenia sewers sick sidewalk small-pox street TABLE tenement tenement-houses thereof tion total mortality total number Typhoid Fever vaccination vault ventilation Vital Statistics Ward Ward's Island water-closets Week ending West York Zymotic zymotic diseases
Popular passages
Page 509 - A lodging-house shall be taken to mean and include any house or building, or portion thereof, in which persons are harbored or received, or lodged for hire for a single night, or for less than a week...
Page 542 - ... building, or portion thereof, which is rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied or is occupied as the home or residence of...
Page 586 - ... poison sold, the purpose for which it Is represented by the purchaser to be required, and the name of the dispenser; such book to be always open for inspection by the proper authorities, and to be preserved for reference for at least five years.
Page 476 - Trustee shall be elected for one year, one for two years, one for three years, and one for four years, and...
Page 488 - Board of Health to aid in the enforcement of, and so far as practicable to enforce all laws of this State, applicable in said District...
Page 346 - When, in the city of New York, any person shall die from criminal violence, or by a casualty, or by suicide, or suddenly when in apparent health, or when unattended by a physician, or in prison, or in any suspicious or unusual manner...
Page 492 - ... be subject to a penalty of two hundred and fifty dollars, to be sued for and recovered by said...
Page 491 - Brooklyn, are hereby respectively empowered and directed annually to order and cause to be raised and collected by tax upon the estates, real and personal, subject to taxation according to law, within the said...
Page 515 - ... no regular clerk or head of a bureau or person holding a position in the classified state civil service, subject to competitive examination, shall be removed until he has been allowed an opportunity of making an explanation...
Page 507 - ... and extending along the entire frontage thereof, and upwards from six inches below the level of the floor thereof up to the surface of the said street or ground, an open space of at least two feet and six inches wide in every part, nor unless the same be well and effectually drained...