Report of the Department of Health of the City of Brooklyn, N.Y. 1884-85Department of Health, 1885 |
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adulteration Ages and Sexes amount analysis animals April arsenic avenue breweries cause cellar cesspool cholera city of Brooklyn coloring matter Contagious Diseases contained copper Copper found cows cream Deaths Department of Health Diphtheria disinfection effect Eighteenth Eleventh Twelfth examination Females fermenting Fourth Fifth gelatine induline infected inspection inspector July June lager beer large number lead lead poisoning lodging house Males Mathews meat milk Months night soil Nineteenth Twentieth Ninth Tenth ordinance patients permit physicians pickles pipe pleuro-pneumonia poisoning present privy vaults Prussian blue public health quantity removed Ridgewood salicylic acid samples sanitary scarlet fever Second sent to Hospital Sept Seventh Eighth sewer sick Sixteenth Seventeenth Sixth Seventh smallpox soda water solution street substances sulphuric acid symptoms TABLE taken tenement houses Third Thirteenth Fourteenth tion Total tuberculosis tuberculous Twelfth Thirteenth Twenty-fifth Twenty-fourth Twenty-second Twenty-third typhoid fever vomiting Ward water-closets yellow
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Page 115 - 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 109 - ... 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...
Page 115 - 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 109 - ... said external window, and so as to allow between every part of such steps and the external wall of such vault, cellar or room, a clear space of six inches at...
Page 79 - That extraordinary care should be exercised in reference to all tenement houses, lodging houses, and in general, all places where large numbers of human beings congregate, that no accumulation of garbage or other filth be permitted in cellars or yards, and that frequent and thorough cleaning and whitewashing of such structures be required ; and that householders should frequently and thoroughly examine their yards, cellars, closets 'and other out of the way places, to see that no filth of any kind...
Page 80 - That all authorities of states, cities or villages be urged to adopt measures which will result in the amelioration of all conditions such as have been referred to in the foregoing propositions, with the warning that, in the opinion of this conference such conditions, if permitted to continue, will greatly promote the spread of cholera when it comes, and with the assurance that, if requisite measures are promptly taken to...
Page 78 - That great care should be exercised to keep at all times clear and free from obstruction all sewers, into which passes the refuse from dwellings, factories and other buildings, and that such examinations should be made as will detect imperfect plumbing in all buildings and the defects immediately corrected.
Page 78 - Clothing. — Boiling for half an hour will destroy the vitality of all known disease germs, and there is no better way of disinfecting clothing or bedding which can be washed than to put it through the ordinary operations of the laundry. No delay should occur, however, between the time of removing soiled clothing from the person or bed of the sick and its immersion in boiling water, or in...
Page 109 - ... shall be occupied as a place of lodging or sleeping, except the same shall be approved in writing, and a permit given therefor by the Board of Health or superintendent.