Report of Committee on social bettermentPresident's Homes Commission, 1908 - 281 pages |
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... sanitation your Committee recom- mends : 1. The further purification of the water supply advocated by the officers in charge of the filtration plant . 2. The reclamation of the Ana- costia Flats for the reduction of malarial fevers . 3. 8.
... sanitation your Committee recom- mends : 1. The further purification of the water supply advocated by the officers in charge of the filtration plant . 2. The reclamation of the Ana- costia Flats for the reduction of malarial fevers . 3. 8.
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... supply of food stuff or income must be regulated by the consumption or outgo , it is essential that the consumption should be determined . Experiments of this kind are made in an apparatus called the " Respiration Calorimeter , " and ...
... supply of food stuff or income must be regulated by the consumption or outgo , it is essential that the consumption should be determined . Experiments of this kind are made in an apparatus called the " Respiration Calorimeter , " and ...
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... consumption only in so far as there is a difference in weight and muscular activity , an exception should be noted in pregnant and nursing women , who doubtless should receive a more liberal supply of proteids . ( 7 ) 12.
... consumption only in so far as there is a difference in weight and muscular activity , an exception should be noted in pregnant and nursing women , who doubtless should receive a more liberal supply of proteids . ( 7 ) 12.
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United States. President's Homes Commission. a more liberal supply of proteids . ( 7 ) By temperature and climate . The influence of low temperatures results in increased oxidation of carbon , hence an instinctive craving for more fatty ...
United States. President's Homes Commission. a more liberal supply of proteids . ( 7 ) By temperature and climate . The influence of low temperatures results in increased oxidation of carbon , hence an instinctive craving for more fatty ...
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... supply is very desirable . If the supply of fat exceeds the demand the excess is eliminated in the feces while other portions are stored up in the visceral cavities and subcutaneous tissues , where it serves as a non - conductor of heat ...
... supply is very desirable . If the supply of fat exceeds the demand the excess is eliminated in the feces while other portions are stored up in the visceral cavities and subcutaneous tissues , where it serves as a non - conductor of heat ...
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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...