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ABSTRACT OF DEATHS Asylum avenue births Board of Health Bright's Disease buildings Bureau carbonic acid CAUSES OF DEATH Cellars and basements cent Cholera City Sanitary Inspector cleanliness complaints connected CONSOLIDATED ABSTRACT contagious disease Diarrhoeal Diphtheria disinfected district drains East ENDING DECEMBER 31ST epidemic Erysipelas fatal filthy floor Foundling Hospital gutters Health Department Health Inspector heat Hospital improvement inspection Ireland July labor large number Light clouds marriages Measles Meningitis MONTHS ENDING DECEMBER NATIVITY nuisance occupation occurred Paris Green past patient persons Phthisis physicians pipe poison population portion Precinct Station Private dwellings privy vault quarter Rain Randall's Island removed repaired River sanitary condition Scarlatina sewerage Sexes sickness small-pox Stables street cleaning TABLE temperature tenement houses Thunder shower tion total mortality Total number TWELVE MONTHS ENDING Typhoid Fever vaccination ventilation Ward Ward's Island water-closets West Whole number XIV.-Continued yard York Zymotic ZYMOTIC DISEASES
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Page 336 - A tenement-house within the meaning of this title shall be taken to mean and include any house or building, or portion thereof, which is rented, leased, let or hired out, to be occupied, or is occupied as the home or residence of three families or more living independently of each other, and doing their cooking upon the premises, or by more than two families upon any floor, so living and cooking, but having a common right in the halls, stairways, yards, water-closets or privies, or some of them.
Page 398 - Visible vapor or clouds, it is well known, prevents frosts by obstructing radiation, or rather by reflecting back again the heat radiated by the earth, just as any mechanical screen would do. On the other hand, clouds intercept the rays of the sun also, and hinder its heat from reaching the earth.
Page 337 - And female forms and features are made so frightful by sin, squalor, and debasement ! To walk the streets as we walked them, in those hours of conflagration and riot, was like witnessing the day of judgment, with every wicked thing revealed, every sin and sorrow blazingly glared upon, every hidden abomination laid before hell's expectant fire.
Page 314 - That every physician shall report to the Sanitary Bureau, in writing, every person having a contagious disease (and the state of his or her disease, and his or her place of dwelling and name, if known) which such physician has prescribed for or attended for the first time since having such a contagious disease, during any part of the preceding twenty-four hours...
Page 397 - Again, the shade of trees protects the earth from the direct rays of the sun, and prevents solar irradiation from the earth. This effect is of immense importance in cities where the paved streets become excessively heated, and radiation creates one of the most dangerous sources of heat. Whoever has walked in the streets of New York, on a hot summer's day, protected from the direct rays of a midday sun by his umbrella, has found the reflected heat of the pavement intolerable. If for a moment he passed...
Page 392 - ... ourselves and incommunicable to our fellows. There is a certain darkness into which the soul of the young man sometimes descends — a horror of desolation, abandonment, and realized worthlessness, which is one of the most real of the hells in which we are compelled to walk. "I know of what I speak. This is due to a variety of causes, the chief of which is the egotism of the human animal itself. But I can tell you for your comfort that the chief cure for it is to interest yourself, to lose yourself,...
Page 314 - ... a contagious disease, during any part of the preceding twenty-four hours ; but not more than two reports shall be required in one week concerning the same person ; but every attending or practising physician thereat must, at his peril, see that such report is or has been made by some attending physician.
Page 388 - ... a high temperature (of the body) commonly follows a cold bath; and after a warm bath, on the other hand, increased coolness is noticed ; and in tropical countries, and very hot seasons, no means of cooling is so lasting as a bath or a douche of very warm water.
Page 317 - Care of Patients. — The patient should be placed in a separate room, and no person except the physician, nurse, or mother, allowed to enter the room, or to touch the bedding or clothing used in the sick-room, until they have been thoroughly disinfected. " Infected Articles. — All clothing, bedding, or other articles not absolutely necessary for the use of the patient, should be removed from the sick-room.
Page 361 - The blood was fluid. The whole of the surface of the brain was intensely congested, the veins and sinuses being gorged with very fluid blood, though not entirely devoid of coagula. On section of the brain little points of blood netted out everywhere. The ventricles were nearly dry. Consistence of brain natural. No exudation or purulent matter found.