Report of Committee on social bettermentPresident's Homes Commission, 1908 - 281 pages |
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Page 55
... mortality of the entire human race is 33,000,000 of persons . A fourth of the race die before completing their 8th year , and one - half before the end of the 17th year , but the average duration of life is about 38 to 40 years . Not ...
... mortality of the entire human race is 33,000,000 of persons . A fourth of the race die before completing their 8th year , and one - half before the end of the 17th year , but the average duration of life is about 38 to 40 years . Not ...
Page 56
... mortality . This is due to the fact that a great many children , imperfectly developed at birth , die within a few days ; the first month is followed by the second , third and fourth month , probably , also , because of diminished vital ...
... mortality . This is due to the fact that a great many children , imperfectly developed at birth , die within a few days ; the first month is followed by the second , third and fourth month , probably , also , because of diminished vital ...
Page 59
... mortality from these diseases . Think of the fact that consumption , during the census year 1900 , claimed 111,059 victims in the United States alone . Pneumonia caused 105,971 deaths ; diarrheal diseases 46,907 ; typhoid fever 59.
... mortality from these diseases . Think of the fact that consumption , during the census year 1900 , claimed 111,059 victims in the United States alone . Pneumonia caused 105,971 deaths ; diarrheal diseases 46,907 ; typhoid fever 59.
Page 60
... mortality , but also the number of cases treated . So , for example , the 35,379 deaths from typhoid fever in one year represent an annual prevalence of not less than 353,790 cases . The duration of a case of typhoid fever is not less ...
... mortality , but also the number of cases treated . So , for example , the 35,379 deaths from typhoid fever in one year represent an annual prevalence of not less than 353,790 cases . The duration of a case of typhoid fever is not less ...
Page 63
... mortality of diphthe- ria , measles and scarlet fever during the past ten years in the American cities , coincident with the establishment of municipal quarantine and disinfection . The average reduction in the mortality from diphtheria 63.
... mortality of diphthe- ria , measles and scarlet fever during the past ten years in the American cities , coincident with the establishment of municipal quarantine and disinfection . The average reduction in the mortality from diphtheria 63.
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Page 194 - ... Second. If it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser, or purport to be a foreign product when not so, or if the contents of the 'package as originally put up shall have been removed in whole or in part and other contents shall have been placed in such package or if...
Page 250 - Such register shall be open for inspection to the said commissioners, their officers and agents, on every day, except Sundays and legal holidays, between the hours of nine o'clock in the forenoon and five o'clock in the afternoon.
Page 64 - You have erased from the calendar of human afflictions one of its greatest. Yours is the comfortable reflection that mankind can never forget that you have lived : future nations will know by history only that the loathsome smallpox has existed, and by you has been extirpated.
Page 124 - An ordinance to revise, consolidate, and amend the ordinances of the board of health, to declare what shall be deemed nuisances injurious to health and to provide for the removal thereof...
Page 117 - His computations clearly indicate that where one death from typhoid fever has been avoided by the use of a better water, a certain number of deaths, probably two or three, from other causes have been avoided.
Page 215 - India missionary the formula of a simple vegetable remedy for the speedy and permanent cure of Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma, and all Throat and Lung Affections, also a positive and radical cure for Nervous Debility and all Nervous Complaints...
Page 193 - It is equally derogatory to professional character for physicians to hold patents for any surgical instruments or medicines; to accept rebates on prescriptions or surgical appliances; to assist unqualified persons to evade the legal restrictions governing the practice of medicine...
Page 182 - From and after the passage of this act no pharmacist, druggist, apothecary, or other person shall refill, more than once, prescriptions containing opium or morphine or preparations of either in which the dose of opium shall exceed one-fourth grain or morphine one-twentieth grain, except with the verbal or written order of a physician.
Page 63 - In diseases like smallpox and scarlet fever, in which the infectious agent is given off from the entire surface of the body, occasional ablutions with Labarraque's Solution, diluted with twenty parts of water, will be more suitable than the stronger solution above recommended.
Page 253 - It shall be entitled to charge and receive upon each loan made by it without the actual delivery to it of the property pledged or mortgaged...