Report of Committee on Social BettermentPresident's homes commission, 1908 - 281 pages |
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... causes of poverty and distress . Many of the diseases are incident to occupations and environment , and industrial efficiency and earning power can be promoted by appro- priate safeguards and adequate protection of the men , women and ...
... causes of poverty and distress . Many of the diseases are incident to occupations and environment , and industrial efficiency and earning power can be promoted by appro- priate safeguards and adequate protection of the men , women and ...
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... causes which lead up to low standards . of living would not be complete without reference to the Alcohol ques- tion , the tobacco and drug habits , the great nostrum evil , and the usury evil , special studies have been made of these ...
... causes which lead up to low standards . of living would not be complete without reference to the Alcohol ques- tion , the tobacco and drug habits , the great nostrum evil , and the usury evil , special studies have been made of these ...
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... causes of physical and financial impoverishment . In view of the importance of the subject , we recommend the appointment of a special board composed of a representative of the Attorney General in the Post Office Department , of the ...
... causes of physical and financial impoverishment . In view of the importance of the subject , we recommend the appointment of a special board composed of a representative of the Attorney General in the Post Office Department , of the ...
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... cause of the constant consumption of the proximate principles of the body must be looked for in the functional activity of the cells . We know that they take up , utilize , disintegrate and eliminate matter ; this gives rise to the ...
... cause of the constant consumption of the proximate principles of the body must be looked for in the functional activity of the cells . We know that they take up , utilize , disintegrate and eliminate matter ; this gives rise to the ...
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... of fat , but unfortunately large quantities are liable to cause nausea and diarrhea , probably because the undigested particles undergo rapid decomposition . 3. The extractives , so called because they are extracted 13.
... of fat , but unfortunately large quantities are liable to cause nausea and diarrhea , probably because the undigested particles undergo rapid decomposition . 3. The extractives , so called because they are extracted 13.
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Page 192 - ... 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 122 - 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 115 - 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 213 - 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 191 - 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 180 - 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 61 - 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...
Page 191 - ... legal restrictions governing the practice of medicine; or to dispense, or promote the use of, secret medicines, for if such nostrums are of real efficacy, any concealment regarding them is inconsistent with beneficence and professional liberality; and, if mystery alone can give them public notoriety, such craft implies either disgraceful ignorance or fraudulent avarice. It is highly reprehensible for physicians to give certificates attesting the efficacy of secret medicines, or other substances...