Monthly Bulletin of the Department of Health in the City of New York, Volume 10The Department., 1920 |
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12 noon anthrax Anti-Anthrax Serum Assigned 8 hrs Avenue B'ths Baby Health Stations birth Blank Bright's Disease Bronchitis Broncho Pneumonia Bronx Brooklyn causes cents clean clerk clinic co-operation compared D'ths daily death rate deaths reported decrease defects Department of Health Diarrhoeal Diseases Diphtheria Diphtheria and Croup dispensaries drug addiction edema eschar examination Glanders hospital increase industry infant mortality rate INFECTIOUS DISEASES influenza institutions Laboratory large number lesion Male Dining Hall Manhattan measles medical inspectors Meningitis milk month mothers narcotic neck Non-paid Non-Paid Non-Paid Number found number of children number of deaths Number of Persons nurses open-air classes P.M. Assigned Paid Paid patients physical Poliomyelitis population prevent public health Puerperal Pulmonary Tuberculosis Queens REGISTERED MORTALITY respiratory Richmond Scarlet Fever Shack Shaving Brush Smallpox supervision teachers Telephone temperature tion Tompkinsville Total treatment Trichinosis Typhoid Fever visits Whooping Cough workers York City
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Page 57 - OF THE DEPARTMENT of HEALTH CITY OF NEW YORK Public health is purchasable. Within natural limitations a community can determine its own death rate.
Page 186 - Congress records its conviction that experiments on living animals have proved of the utmost service to medicine in the past, and are indispensable to its future progress.
Page 69 - In a recent study conducted by the Public Health Committee of the New York Academy of Medicine it was found that 8.1% of the cases of illness were treated in hospitals.
Page 114 - A person who wilfully omits, without lawful excuse, to perform a duty by law imposed upon him to furnish food, clothing, shelter or medical attendance to a minor or...
Page 114 - ... maternity hospital or lying-in asylum where women may be received, cared for or treated during pregnancy or during or after delivery, or for boarding or keeping nursing children, the written approval of the state board of charities shall also be indorsed thereupon or annexed thereto, before the filing thereof.
Page 43 - The practices of drug addicts to meet the demands of their depraved appetites causes financial embarrassment, and to meet these desires the addicts become immoral and antisocial. When in need of the drug, or overstimulated from indulgence, all moral influence and self-control are lost. These individuals either in need of the drug or under its stimulating influence are a distinct menace to society. They will commit the most revolting of crimes in cold blood. Drug addiction is not a mysterious disease....
Page 43 - ... and antisocial. When in need of the drug, or overstimulated from indulgence, all moral influence and self-control are lost "These individuals either in need of the drug or under its stimulating influence are a distinct menace to society. They will commit the most revolting of crimes in cold blood. "Drug addiction is not a mysterious disease. From a purely scientific point of view it would be interesting to have more light on the problem of tolerance, but on therapeutic indications and possibilities...
Page 114 - ... modified milk" defined; exception. — No milk or cream, condensed or concentrated milk, condensed skimmed milk, or modified milk, shall be held, kept, offered for sale, sold, or delivered in the City of New York without a permit therefor issued by the Board of Health, or otherwise than in accordance with the terms of said permit and with the Regulations of said Board.
Page 266 - No person shall use in the manufacture of brushes or cloth, any animal hair which has not been sterilized by a process prescribed or approved by the Board of Health; nor shall any person bring into, or offer for sale, sell, or deliver in the City of New York, any brush or cloth containing animal hair unless the same shall have been so sterilized. It shall be the duty of the manufacturer of shaving brushes, tooth brushes, hair brushes, nail brushes, or other toilet brushes intended for human use,...
Page 162 - In 7,219 instances, less milk was bought, according to statements of the mother; more condensed milk was used in 1,017 families. Mothers, to the number of 5,775, claimed that children were deprived of milk by reason of high cost of the same, and 4,053 children were found to be using less milk. The examination by the nurses showed the following prevalence of nutritional disorders among the children. This is the most interesting and important disclosure of the survey. There were 1,294 children found...