Report of the Health OfficerU.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 |
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... privy accommodations . The system of heating and ventilating which has been for years in general use ( the so - called Smead system ) is not , in the judgment of this department , satisfactory . The air supply is deficient in moisture ...
... privy accommodations . The system of heating and ventilating which has been for years in general use ( the so - called Smead system ) is not , in the judgment of this department , satisfactory . The air supply is deficient in moisture ...
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... privy . 7 Hydrants Lots , filthy .. 23 19 226 6 2 2 1 57 20 2 20 38 18 5 40 12 52 64 Lots , stagnant water 1 1 4 Manure 13 14 14 3 13 3 1 3 Markets , public .. 7 2 Miscellaneous . 193 198 86 59 66 43 21 41 Pumps . l'ipes , water .. 11 ...
... privy . 7 Hydrants Lots , filthy .. 23 19 226 6 2 2 1 57 20 2 20 38 18 5 40 12 52 64 Lots , stagnant water 1 1 4 Manure 13 14 14 3 13 3 1 3 Markets , public .. 7 2 Miscellaneous . 193 198 86 59 66 43 21 41 Pumps . l'ipes , water .. 11 ...
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... privy . 34 32 21 35 39 30 51 40 27 326 Hydrants 101 123 156 92 80 120 114 30 7 890 Lots , filthy 51 116 167 147 192 547 250 194 374 447 2 , 485 Manure 579 629 676 599 523 192 109 236 191 126 3,860 Miscellaneous 1,631 2,792 2,627 2,296 2 ...
... privy . 34 32 21 35 39 30 51 40 27 326 Hydrants 101 123 156 92 80 120 114 30 7 890 Lots , filthy 51 116 167 147 192 547 250 194 374 447 2 , 485 Manure 579 629 676 599 523 192 109 236 191 126 3,860 Miscellaneous 1,631 2,792 2,627 2,296 2 ...
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... privy purposes is shown by the inspectors ' reports , which indicate that dur- ing the past year 4,897 were filthy and 555 had leaky boxes . The remedy for the condition described above appears to be the col- lection of night soil by ...
... privy purposes is shown by the inspectors ' reports , which indicate that dur- ing the past year 4,897 were filthy and 555 had leaky boxes . The remedy for the condition described above appears to be the col- lection of night soil by ...
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... . SLACK . whence it is drawn through the privy vaults or water. CLOSETS . FOUL AIR CHAMBER STAIRS . C A FRESH AIR ROOM . FURNACE . STAIRS . B FOUL AIR CHAMBER . CLOSETS . D Arrows indicate direction of floor beams above .
... . SLACK . whence it is drawn through the privy vaults or water. CLOSETS . FOUL AIR CHAMBER STAIRS . C A FRESH AIR ROOM . FURNACE . STAIRS . B FOUL AIR CHAMBER . CLOSETS . D Arrows indicate direction of floor beams above .
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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.
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