Report of Committee on Social BettermentPresident's homes commission, 1908 - 281 pages |
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... means in many instances the utter financial ruin of the family and is doubtless one of the most potent causes of poverty and distress . Many of the diseases are incident to occupations and environment , and industrial efficiency and ...
... means in many instances the utter financial ruin of the family and is doubtless one of the most potent causes of poverty and distress . Many of the diseases are incident to occupations and environment , and industrial efficiency and ...
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... means of an apparatus called the calorimeter . The unit commonly used is the calorie , by which we understand the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of a pound of water 1 degree F. , or if transformed into mechanical power ...
... means of an apparatus called the calorimeter . The unit commonly used is the calorie , by which we understand the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of a pound of water 1 degree F. , or if transformed into mechanical power ...
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... means of these experiments , Prof. Atwater has been able to verify the law of the conservation of energy as applied to the animal organism , and has shown that every unit of energy which enters the body as potential energy of the food ...
... means of these experiments , Prof. Atwater has been able to verify the law of the conservation of energy as applied to the animal organism , and has shown that every unit of energy which enters the body as potential energy of the food ...
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... mean by meat the muscular substance with its connective tissues , the fat and various juices deposited therein . The nutritive value of meat depends upon the large percentage of protein . Dark meats , such as game and wild fowl and beef ...
... mean by meat the muscular substance with its connective tissues , the fat and various juices deposited therein . The nutritive value of meat depends upon the large percentage of protein . Dark meats , such as game and wild fowl and beef ...
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... means of flies , the store- room should be properly screened and it is also a good plan to use either filtered or boiled water for washing fruits and vegetables which are eater raw . Persons suffering or recovering from communicable ...
... means of flies , the store- room should be properly screened and it is also a good plan to use either filtered or boiled water for washing fruits and vegetables which are eater raw . Persons suffering or recovering from communicable ...
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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...