Monthly Bulletin of the Department of Health in the City of New York, Volume 11The Department., 1921 |
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anthrax antitoxin Avenue average Baby Health Stations births Borough Borough of Brooklyn Borough of Manhattan Borough of Queens Bright's Disease Broncho Bronx Brooklyn Bureau of Child Bureau of Preventable causes cent Child Hygiene City clinics communicable diseases compared death rate decrease Department of Health diagnosis Diarrhoeal Diseases diphtheria Diphtheria and Croup drug employees Encephalitis Lethargica epidemic families foodhandlers Gonorrhoea Grade hospitals houses immunization increase infant mortality rate infection INFECTIOUS DISEASES influenza inspection institutions Laboratory large number Manhattan Measles medical inspectors medical profession Meningitis milk month mothers number of deaths Number of Persons nurses open-air classes organization patients period Pneumonia Poliomyelitis population Preventable Diseases private physicians public health Pulmonary Tuberculosis pupils reported result sanitary Scarlet Fever Schick Schick test secondary cases occurred showed Smallpox supervision syphilis Tetanus tion total number typhoid fever vaccine venereal disease Whooping Cough York
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Page 267 - Public, health is purchasable. Within natural limitations a community can determine its own death rate.
Page 193 - It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, furnish or dispose of alkaloid cocaine or its salts, or alpha or beta eucaine or their salts or any admixture of cocaine or eucaine, except upon the written prescription of a duly registered physician...
Page 14 - I have not to my knowledge been infected with any venereal disease, or if I have been so infected within five years I have had a laboratory test within that period which shows that I am now free from infection from any such disease.
Page 14 - We believe that, while the proposal is a step in the right direction, it does not go far enough. We...
Page 193 - ... prepared for external use only, except liniments, ointments, and other preparations which contain cocaine or any of its salts or alpha or beta eucaine or any of their salts or any synthetic substitute for them: Provided, That such remedies and preparations are sold, distributed, given away, dispensed, or possessed as medicines and not for the purpose of evading the intentions and provisions of this act.
Page 60 - The evidence of immunological response to the vaccine was, as might be expected from the above findings, apparent only in the lessened incidence of pneumonia. The percentage of colds was as great among the vaccinated as among the unvaccinated. The pneumonia incidence was much less. The greater multiplicity of types of microbes believed to be capable of exciting common colds over those usually exciting pneumonia, is possibly the explanation of the apparent uselessness of the vaccines employed in this...
Page 251 - For, after all, the control of child life is more of a socio-economic than a medical problem ; more a question of education and prevention, than of treatment; more...
Page 193 - ... of a grain in one ( 1 ) fluid ounce, or if a solid or semi-solid preparation in one (1) avoirdupois ounce. Provided, however, the provisions of this subdivision shall not apply to liniments, ointments and other preparations containing such drugs which are prepared and suitable for external use only. Provided, further, that all such remedies and preparations are to be manufactured, sold, dispensed or possessed as medicines and not for the purpose of evading the intention and purposes of Article...
Page 247 - With these facts in mind, it is perfectly natural that the Bureau of Child Hygiene should seek the enrollment of babies at the Baby Health Stations, as soon after birth as possible. The results of our efforts will be noted below: AGE OF INFANTS ADMITTED TO BABY HEALTH STATIONS— ARRANGED BY PERCENTAGE. CITY OF NEW YORK. During 1920, the Bureau of Child Hygiene was a little more successful than during the past three years, both in the registration under one month, and under three months of age. While...
Page 213 - Excluding the 295 industrial medical examinations made in these clinics, a total of 16,484 food-handler examinations were made. Of this number 2,616, or 28 per cent., were found to present a physical defect of significant character. In the Borough of Manhattan, including miscellaneous food-handlers and bakers, 30 per cent, were found physically defective; in the Borough of The Bronx, 15 per cent. — the smallest number recorded in any Borough — were...