Report of the health officer of the District of Columbia. 1897U.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 |
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... occurring in the various asy- lums and hospitals located in each section , so that this factor may be practically disregarded in making such comparisons as the reader may desire . As a statement of the population and number of deaths ...
... occurring in the various asy- lums and hospitals located in each section , so that this factor may be practically disregarded in making such comparisons as the reader may desire . As a statement of the population and number of deaths ...
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... occurs . Of the homicidal deaths , 5 resulted from gunshot wounds , 3 from stabs , and 2 from blows on the head . Of the suicidal deaths , 17 resulted from pistol shots , 10 from the inhalation of illuminating gas , 13 by poison , and 2 ...
... occurs . Of the homicidal deaths , 5 resulted from gunshot wounds , 3 from stabs , and 2 from blows on the head . Of the suicidal deaths , 17 resulted from pistol shots , 10 from the inhalation of illuminating gas , 13 by poison , and 2 ...
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... occur neither have nor are able to secure trained assistants to perform such disinfection , it is necessary that means be provided at public expense whereby this work may be done . An appropriation for the maintenance of a disinfecting ...
... occur neither have nor are able to secure trained assistants to perform such disinfection , it is necessary that means be provided at public expense whereby this work may be done . An appropriation for the maintenance of a disinfecting ...
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... occur . For this reason a bill to prevent the spread of such diseases in the District of Columbia was presented to Congress , and became a law on March 3 , 1897. Having now secured the right to regulate the management of such diseases ...
... occur . For this reason a bill to prevent the spread of such diseases in the District of Columbia was presented to Congress , and became a law on March 3 , 1897. Having now secured the right to regulate the management of such diseases ...
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... occur , which , while detrimental to proper ventilation at all times , are absolutely dangerous when the ven- tilating system is connected with the privy vaults , as is the case in many of the school buildings now in use . In those ...
... occur , which , while detrimental to proper ventilation at all times , are absolutely dangerous when the ven- tilating system is connected with the privy vaults , as is the case in many of the school buildings now in use . In those ...
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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...