Report of the health officer of the District of Columbia. 1897U.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 |
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... duties might without harm be extended to the superintendence of all public buildings - who should have constant ... duty is well performed . But these officials have not as a rule had the necessary technical or mechanical training ...
... duties might without harm be extended to the superintendence of all public buildings - who should have constant ... duty is well performed . But these officials have not as a rule had the necessary technical or mechanical training ...
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... duties devolving upon the chemist , it has only been possible to devote a very limited amount of attention to the inspection of drugs . Four samples of the tincture of the chloride of iron were analyzed and found to be up to standard ...
... duties devolving upon the chemist , it has only been possible to devote a very limited amount of attention to the inspection of drugs . Four samples of the tincture of the chloride of iron were analyzed and found to be up to standard ...
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... duties of the health department is the supervision of the milk supply . Milk is the single article of human food of ... duty it is to care for public health . The method of inspection employed by this department consists of ( 1 ) the ...
... duties of the health department is the supervision of the milk supply . Milk is the single article of human food of ... duty it is to care for public health . The method of inspection employed by this department consists of ( 1 ) the ...
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... duty of the inspector of dairy products . While the assignment of this work to him has neces- sarily diminished the amount of work done in the chemical laboratory , the result , as shown in the improved sanitary condition of the dairies ...
... duty of the inspector of dairy products . While the assignment of this work to him has neces- sarily diminished the amount of work done in the chemical laboratory , the result , as shown in the improved sanitary condition of the dairies ...
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... duty in connection with the gar- bage service , and $ 4 deducted for neglect . The cost , therefore , to the District for the collection and disposal of garbage and dead animals per thousand inhabitants per annum has been $ 205.80 , and ...
... duty in connection with the gar- bage service , and $ 4 deducted for neglect . The cost , therefore , to the District for the collection and disposal of garbage and dead animals per thousand inhabitants per annum has been $ 205.80 , and ...
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Abscess aforesaid alley Angina pectoris animals board of health board of medical Bright's disease Bronchitis building Cancer cause cent circulatory organs cities of Washington Commissioners Congestion of lungs contagious disease court cows Day of month day old Death rate death rate-Continued Deaths Death Popula deaths occurring digestive organs diphtheria Diseases of digestive District of Columbia dollars duty East Capitol st Eleventh st ended June 30 etc.-Continued examination Female fined not less Fourteenth st garbage H st health officer hereby Hospital I.-Showing total number injurious to health inspection inspector June 30 List of physicians Male milk Ninth st nuisances injurious number of deaths offense Order owner Paraplegia person or persons physicians Placenta previa Pleurisy Pneumonia premises privy regulations removed rooms Scarlet fever Senile gangrene sewer sewer traps street Suicides TABLE I.-Showing total tion Total deaths Typhoid fever Urinary organs uterus vacant ventilators violence White William
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Page 108 - May 18, 1896. [NOTE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.— The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the House of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States...
Page 111 - MD" But nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit students from prescribing under the supervision of preceptors, or to prohibit gratuitous services in cases of emergency. And this act shall not apply to commissioned surgeons of the United States army and navy.
Page 108 - A person duly authorized to practice physic or surgery, or a professional or registered nurse, shall not be allowed to disclose any information which he acquired in attending a patient in a professional capacity, and which was necessary to enable him to act in that capacity...
Page 105 - No dealer in milk, and no servant or agent of such a dealer, shall sell, exchange, or deliver, or have in his custody or possession with intent to sell, exchange, or deliver...
Page 101 - it extends to the protection of the lives, limbs, health, comfort and quiet of all persons, and the protection of all property within the state.
Page 98 - That no person shall be guilty of any such offence as aforesaid in respect of the sale of an article of food or a drug mixed with any matter or ingredient not injurious to health, and not intended fraudulently to increase its bulk, weight, or measure, or conceal its inferior quality, if at the time of delivering such article...
Page 86 - A. Arsenic and its preparations, corrosive sublimate, white precipitate, red precipitate, biniodide of mercury, cyanide of potassium, hydrocyanic acid, strychnia and all other poisonous vegetable alkaloids and their salts, essential oil of bitter almonds, opium and its preparations, except paregoric and other preparations of opium containing less than two grains to the ounce. SCHEDULE B.
Page 98 - ... court before whom he is charged that he did not know of the article of food or drug sold by him being so mixed, coloured, stained, or powdered, as in either of those sections mentioned, and that he could not with reasonable diligence have obtained that knowledge.
Page 112 - Cooperative funds contributed in advance shall be deposited in the United States Treasury to the credit of the Forest Service Cooperative Fund authorized by the Act of June 30, 1914 (38 Stat.
Page 98 - No person shall sell to the prejudice of the purchaser any article of food or any drug which is not of the nature, substance, and quality of the article demanded...