Report of the Health OfficerU.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 |
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District of Columbia. Health Department. to the ascertainment of the number of children of school age than to the determination of the death rates . Of the entire population , how- ever , approximately 11 per cent is under 7 years of age ...
District of Columbia. Health Department. to the ascertainment of the number of children of school age than to the determination of the death rates . Of the entire population , how- ever , approximately 11 per cent is under 7 years of age ...
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... deaths , and death rates for the twenty - two years ended June 30 , 1897 ... number of persons in each of those age periods has been computed upon the ... number under 7 years of age , they appear to be at least approximately correct . By ...
... deaths , and death rates for the twenty - two years ended June 30 , 1897 ... number of persons in each of those age periods has been computed upon the ... number under 7 years of age , they appear to be at least approximately correct . By ...
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... number of deaths actually reported from this population was 210. Upon the basis of population , it is fair to assume that of the 1,151 persons who died in the asylums and hospitals during the year 26 came from this section . The total ...
... number of deaths actually reported from this population was 210. Upon the basis of population , it is fair to assume that of the 1,151 persons who died in the asylums and hospitals during the year 26 came from this section . The total ...
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... number of inhabitants . Classifying the mortality according to causation we find an increase since last year in the deaths from constitutional and developmental dis- eases , and a decrease in the number from zymotic and local causes and ...
... number of inhabitants . Classifying the mortality according to causation we find an increase since last year in the deaths from constitutional and developmental dis- eases , and a decrease in the number from zymotic and local causes and ...
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... deaths from all causes . Of this number 577 were whites and 450 colored ; 577 were children under 5 years old . In certain diseases of this class the number of fatal cases shows an increase ; thus the deaths from diphtheria increased ...
... deaths from all causes . Of this number 577 were whites and 450 colored ; 577 were children under 5 years old . In certain diseases of this class the number of fatal cases shows an increase ; thus the deaths from diphtheria increased ...
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Abscess aforesaid alley Angina pectoris animals Annual death rate board of health board of medical Bright's disease Bronchitis building cancers cause cent circulatory organs cities of Washington Commissioners contagious disease court cows dairy farms death rate-Continued Deaths Death Popula deaths occurring diphtheria disinfected 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 Hospital I.-Showing total number injurious to health inspection inspector June 30 less than five List of physicians Male milk Ninth st nuisances injurious number of deaths Number of square offense Order owner Paraplegia permit person or persons physicians Placenta previa Pleurisy premises privy regulations removed rooms scarlet fever Senile gangrene sewer sewer traps street TABLE I.-Showing total tion Total deaths Typhoid fever Urinary organs uterus vacant ventilators violence White William York ave zymotic
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Page 108 - May 13, 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 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 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 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 117 - An act for the establishment of a bureau of animal industry, to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle, and to provide means for the suppression and extirpation of pleuro-pneumonia and other contagious diseases among domestic animals/' and to co-operate with the authorities of the United States in the enforcement of the provisions of such act.
Page 111 - It shall be the duty of the United States district attorney for the District of Columbia to prosecute all violations of the provisions of this act.
Page 86 - Any itinerant vender of any drug, nostrum, ointment, or appliance of any kind, intended for the treatment of disease or injury, or who shall, by writing or printing, or any other method, publicly profess to cure or treat diseases, injury, or deformity by any drug, nostrum, manipulation or other expedient, shall pay a license of one hundred dollars a month, to be collected in the usual way.
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...
Page 98 - That no person shall mix, color, stain, or powder, or order, or permit any other person to mix, color, stain, or powder any article of food with any ingredient or material so as to render the article injurious to health with the ^ intent that the same may be sold, and no person shall sell or offer for sale any such article so mixed, colored, stained, or powdered. SEC.
Page 111 - To amend the Act for the regulation of the practice of dentistry in the District of Columbia, and for the protection of the people from empiricism in relation thereto, approved June 6, 1892, and Acts amendatory thereof, approved July 2, 1940 (54 Stat.