Quarterly bulletin (New York (N.Y.). Dept. of Health). 1914

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Department of Health, 1914
 

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Page 211 - Public health is purchasable. Within natural limitations a community can determine its own death rate.
Page 287 - ... determine the just, reasonable, safe, adequate and proper regulations, practices, equipment, appliances and service thereafter to be in force, to be observed and to be used in such transportation of persons and property and so fix and prescribe the same by order to be served upon every common carrier, railroad corporation and street railroad corporation to be bound thereby...
Page 115 - Any person, other than a manufacturer of any of the drugs mentioned in section two hundred and forty -five or a wholesale dealer in drugs or a licensed pharmacist, licensed druggist, duly registered practicing physician, licensed veterinarian or a licensed dentist, who shall possess any of the drugs mentioned in section two hundred and forty-five or their salts, derivatives or preparations, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, unless said possession is authorized by the certificate described in this...
Page 213 - Nor shall any person, by any exposure of any individual sick of any contagious disease, or of the body of such person, or by any negligent act connected therewith, or in respect of the care or custody thereof, or by a needless exposure of himself, cause or contribute to, or promote the spread of disease from any such person, or from any dead body.
Page 156 - When, in the city of New York, any person shall die from criminal violence, or by a casualty, or by suicide, or suddenly when in apparent health, or when unattended by a physician, or in prison, or in any suspicious or unusual manner...
Page 161 - public nuisance' is a crime against the order and economy of the state, and consists in unlawfully doing an act. or omitting to perform a duty, which act or omission : "1. Annoys, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health or safety of any considerable number of persons; or, "2.
Page 212 - It shall be the duty of every person having knowledge of the existence of any person afflicted...
Page 115 - ... and preparations do not contain more than two grains of opium, or onefourth grain of morphine or one-fourth grain of heroin or one grain of codeine, or ten grains of chloral or their salts in one fluid ounce or if a solid preparation, in one avoirdupois ounce, nor to plasters, liniments and ointments for external use only.
Page 212 - Health, in writing, the full name, age and address of any person suffering from any one of the infectious diseases included in the list appended, with the name of the disease, within twenty-four hours of the time when the case is first seen : A.
Page 189 - No cocaine or salt of cocaine, and no morphine Or salt of morphine, either alone or in combination with other substances, shall be sold at retail by any person in the city of New York, except upon the prescription of a physician.

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