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antitoxin Applications avenue birth Board of Health Borough Borough of Manhattan Bronx Brook Brooklyn Cancer cent certificates cesspools CITY OF Deaths Clerk Clinic cluded Contagious Diseases creamery Creek Cubic centimeters death rate Department of Health Diphtheria district Division drained Entire City examined excluded from school Extrac foodstuffs found in homes found in school Glanders Grade hattan Hospital Improved Unim infant institutions Instructions and treatments issued Kissena Park Laboratory large number Manhattan Measles milk stations mond nuisance number of deaths number of inspections nurses Otisville Park pasteurizing pending permit Pertussis Physical Defects population premises privy vaults Puerperal Pulmonary Reinspections result Richmond samples Sanitary Bureau Sanitary Code Sanitary Inspectors Scarlet Fever school and ex sewers slaughterhouse waste slaughterhouses Street supervision TABLE tion total number treatments in school tuberculosis typhoid fever Unim Unreported cases found Vaccine violation Visits Whooping cough Willard Parker York City
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Page 13 - The use of living bacterial organisms in the inoculation of human beings for the prevention or treatment of disease is hereby prohibited until full and complete data regarding the method of use, including a specimen of the culture and other agents employed therewith, and a full account of the details of preparation, dosage, and administration, shall...
Page 78 - In every case, before an employment certificate is issued, such physical fitness shall be determined by a medical officer of the department or :board of health, who shall make a thorough physical examination of the child and record the result thereof on a blank to be furnished for the purpose by the commissioner of labor and shall set forth thereon such facts concerning- the physical condition and history of the child as the commissioner of labor may require.
Page 45 - Grade C milk or cream is milk or cream not conforming to the requirements of any of the subdivisions of Grade A...
Page 78 - English language and that in his opinion the child is fourteen years of age or upwards and has reached the normal development of a child of its age, and is in sound health and is physically able to perform the work which it intends to do.
Page 129 - As has been aptly said it is the cost of high living rather than the high cost of living that is in large measure responsible for the decline of the birth rate.
Page 51 - Either — (1) possess a diploma from a recognized school for midwives; or (2) have attended, under the instruction of a duly licensed and registered physician, not less than fifteen cases of labor and have had the care of at least fifteen mothers and newborn infants during lying-in periods of...
Page 19 - No person shall cause, suffer or allow dense smoke to be discharged from any building, vessel, stationary or locomotive engine or motor vehicle, place or premises within The City of New York or upon the waters adjacent thereto, within the jurisdiction of said City.
Page 13 - ... employed in some phases of the treatment ; and Whereas evidence is already at hand to show that the so-called remedy not only does not fulfill the promises of efficiency and safety under which its use was at first permitted in this city, but, on the contrary, during its administration many patients have suffered serious and unduly rapid progress of their disease: Therefore be it Resolved. That the use of living bacterial organisms in the inoculation of human beings for the prevention or treatment...
Page 51 - ... cannot afford to ignore. So many conditions and diseases are illuminated by a careful study of the blood, that it has become a very important and valuable procedure in medical diagnosis. The Widal test applied to the blood of typhoid fever patients has become a reliable means of diagnosis and is used by the Board of Health of the city of New York as the official test. Before attempting to work with the microscope in clinical or other studies, it is essential to future success and good work that...
Page 19 - All persons participating in any violation of this provision, either as proprietors, owners? tenants, managers, superintendents, captains, engineers, firemen, or motor vehicle operators or otherwise, shall be severally liable therefor.