Report of Committee on Social BettermentPresident's homes commission, 1908 - 281 pages |
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... 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 ...
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... 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 . Syphilis . Condylomata . Tabes ...
... 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 . Syphilis . Condylomata . Tabes ...
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... Opium Habit . Cocaine Habit . Total Number Vice Diseases . 1904 2907 77 1905 2918 88 52 1906 | 1907 ] 2366 | 121 1899 1900 1901 | 758 126 4 1000 27 50 20 28 73 4❘ 146 511 94 78 1902 5397 450 5 206 Freedmen's Hospital - Dispensary ...
... Opium Habit . Cocaine Habit . Total Number Vice Diseases . 1904 2907 77 1905 2918 88 52 1906 | 1907 ] 2366 | 121 1899 1900 1901 | 758 126 4 1000 27 50 20 28 73 4❘ 146 511 94 78 1902 5397 450 5 206 Freedmen's Hospital - Dispensary ...
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... Opium Habit . Cocaine Habit . Total Number Vice Diseases . 1899 1103 II 1900 1246 ] 14 1901 1307 1902 1600 1903 1401 1904 1182 26 I 1905 1480 32 [ 1906 ] 1432 32 1907 14081 23 2 | 1899 ] 5121 1900 6421 1901 755 1902 1033 1903 908 72 ...
... Opium Habit . Cocaine Habit . Total Number Vice Diseases . 1899 1103 II 1900 1246 ] 14 1901 1307 1902 1600 1903 1401 1904 1182 26 I 1905 1480 32 [ 1906 ] 1432 32 1907 14081 23 2 | 1899 ] 5121 1900 6421 1901 755 1902 1033 1903 908 72 ...
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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 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...