Report of Committee on social bettermentPresident's Homes Commission, 1908 - 281 pages |
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Page 136
... opium habit , and 61 for the cocaine habit ; an average of 4,243 cases per annum of vice diseases , or nearly 1/7 of all the cases treated in the city hospitals . As a matter of fact , 23.6 % of all the cases treated in the Washington ...
... opium habit , and 61 for the cocaine habit ; an average of 4,243 cases per annum of vice diseases , or nearly 1/7 of all the cases treated in the city hospitals . As a matter of fact , 23.6 % of all the cases treated in the Washington ...
Page 137
... OPIUM HABIT AND COCAINE HABIT TREATED AT HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES OF WASHINGTON , AND THE RELA- TION THESE DISEASES BEAR TO THE TOTAL NUMBER TREATED . Syphilitic Affections . Gonorrheal Affections . Year . Number treated in Year . All ...
... OPIUM HABIT AND COCAINE HABIT TREATED AT HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES OF WASHINGTON , AND THE RELA- TION THESE DISEASES BEAR TO THE TOTAL NUMBER TREATED . Syphilitic Affections . Gonorrheal Affections . Year . Number treated in Year . All ...
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... Opium Habit . Cocaine Habit . Total Number Vice Diseases . 1904 77 1905 52 1906 1907 ] 1899 4779 313 1900 6202 3851 1901 5804 192 1902 5397 450 Freedmen's Hospital - Dispensary . 1903 6044 491 1904 6081 670 1905 1906 75852665 126458 20 ...
... Opium Habit . Cocaine Habit . Total Number Vice Diseases . 1904 77 1905 52 1906 1907 ] 1899 4779 313 1900 6202 3851 1901 5804 192 1902 5397 450 Freedmen's Hospital - Dispensary . 1903 6044 491 1904 6081 670 1905 1906 75852665 126458 20 ...
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... Opium Habit . Cocaine Habit . Total Number Vice Diseases . | 1899 | 1103 II 1900 1246 14 1901 1307 19 144 I I 23 13 24 II I 19 26 12 15 22 I 12 1902 1600 24 Garfield Hospital 1903 1401 26 1904 1182 26 1905 1480 32 1906 1432 32 T1907 ...
... Opium Habit . Cocaine Habit . Total Number Vice Diseases . | 1899 | 1103 II 1900 1246 14 1901 1307 19 144 I I 23 13 24 II I 19 26 12 15 22 I 12 1902 1600 24 Garfield Hospital 1903 1401 26 1904 1182 26 1905 1480 32 1906 1432 32 T1907 ...
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... opium habit , 36 persons died from accidental or negligent opium poisoning and 36 com- mitted suicide with opium or its preparations . Of the accidental deaths 12 were under five years of age , while the remainder were over 20 years of ...
... opium habit , 36 persons died from accidental or negligent opium poisoning and 36 com- mitted suicide with opium or its preparations . Of the accidental deaths 12 were under five years of age , while the remainder were over 20 years of ...
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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...