Report of the Health OfficerU.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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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.