Annual report of the State Department of Health of New York. 1903 suppl. pt.1State Department of Health, 1903 - 42 pages |
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Acute respiratory diseases Albany ammonia antitoxin appearance behavior during ignition board of health Brookfield cancer causes Cerebro-spinal meningitis CAUSES OF DEATH cells cent Cerebro-spinal meningitis Typhoid clubroot creek Deaths at 70 deaths Representing annual Deaths under five Department of Health Diarrheal diseases acute diphtheria discharge disinfection disposal DISTRICT Totals drain Erysipelas examination feet five years Percentage formaldehyde garbage health officer Hudson infection Lake loss on ignition Measles meningitis meningitis Typhoid fever mortality nitrates nuisance number of deaths Odor at 100 organism outlet parasite physician pipe Plasmodiophora Plate pollution present protoplasm Puerperal diseases Diseases pumping Representing annual death reservoir respiratory diseases Consumption Rest of district river samples Scarlet fever Scarlet fever Measles septic tank sewage sewer smallpox spores stream street system Cancer Accidents tion tissue town tumors Typhoid fever urinary system vaccination village violence Old age water supply Whooping cough York Zymotic deaths
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Page 477 - Hence they were furnished with sentiments and language, such as Gorgo the wife of Leonidas is said to have made use of. When a woman of another country said to her, "You of Lacedaemon are the only women in the world that rule the men :'' she answered, " We are the only women that bring forth men.
Page 481 - More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 185 - ... public means of removal or purification of sewage, the municipality or corporation owning the water works benefited thereby shall, at its own expense, construct and maintain such system of...
Page 224 - Boards of health, under the acts referred to, cannot, as to any existing state of facts, by their determination make that a nuisance which is not in fact a nuisance. They have no jurisdiction to make any order or ordinance abating an alleged nuisance unless there be in fact a nuisance. Vlt is the actual existence of a nuisance which gives them jurisdiction to act.
Page 589 - ... sharply defined. Frog III, killed after 47 days, shows upon the surface of the liver the mesentery and omentum, nodules varying from the size of a pinhead to that of a large grain of rice. These are firm and white and of a little greater consistence than those found in Frog I. Fresh examination shows these nodules to be composed for the most part of large, spindle elements in which an occasional vesicular structure, varying in size from three to six micromillimeters, can be found. Many of these...
Page 185 - The state department of health may make rules and regulations for the protection from contamination of any or all public supplies of potable waters and their sources within the state.
Page 348 - The result of these authorities is that whoever abates an alleged nuisance, and thus destroys or injures private property, or interferes with private rights, whether he be a public officer or private person, unless he acts under the judgment or order of a court having jurisdiction, does it at his peril ; and when his act is challenged in the regular judicial tribunals it must appear that the thing abated was in fact a nuisance. This rule has the sanction of public policy, and is founded upon fundamental...
Page 690 - It will be found that the odor of putrefaction may often be suppressed by their use and the putrefactic process itself checked. 5. Burns and intense dermatitis, so frequently noted when the treatment first came into vogue, may now be almost certainly avoided. 6. More than this they afford a supplementary method of treatment after operation, by which the benefits of the same may be enhanced and enlarged. 7. It is not necessary to intermit such work as the patient may be engaged in, in order to carry...
Page 217 - Albany, NY DEAR SIR: I am in receipt of your communication of the...
Page 674 - If now one gram of water (ie, 1 cc) weighing this amount at the earth's surface, could be carried to the sun's surface and weighed there ; it would be found to weigh 27.5 grams ; that is, the attraction of the sun would draw it in with 10,000 times the force with which the sun's light would tend to repulse it. But now if instead of a cubic centimeter, we consider a much smaller cube the pressure on its base would diminish as the square of its edge, but its weight would diminish as its cube or volume....