Annual report of the State Board of Health of the State of Rhode Island. 1889E. L. Freeman, 1890 |
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... , is not free from impure constituents . There is , however , a very general , earnest and STATE BOARD OF HEALTH . [ 1889 . Births; showing the number of each sex born in each month of the year, in the several divisions of the State.
... , is not free from impure constituents . There is , however , a very general , earnest and STATE BOARD OF HEALTH . [ 1889 . Births; showing the number of each sex born in each month of the year, in the several divisions of the State.
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... as per last year's report , making a total of 807 on the works . APPLICATIONS . Applications for water have been made as follows : In Pawtucket ............ . In Central Falls Division .... In 62 [ 1889 . STATE BOARD OF HEALTH .
... as per last year's report , making a total of 807 on the works . APPLICATIONS . Applications for water have been made as follows : In Pawtucket ............ . In Central Falls Division .... In 62 [ 1889 . STATE BOARD OF HEALTH .
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... Division .. In East Providence Division In Ashton Division .... Total for year . SERVICES . 16i services have been made in Pawtucket . 57 30 " " 45 " " 46 46 Central Falls . Lonsdale and Valley Falls Division . East Providence Division ...
... Division .. In East Providence Division In Ashton Division .... Total for year . SERVICES . 16i services have been made in Pawtucket . 57 30 " " 45 " " 46 46 Central Falls . Lonsdale and Valley Falls Division . East Providence Division ...
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... division of Paw- tucket Water Works , all data to be found under Pawtucket Water Works . EAST PROVIDENCE . Water Works built in 1880 by the town . Engineer , C. H. M. Blake . Contractor , J. J. Newman , Providence . After the original ...
... division of Paw- tucket Water Works , all data to be found under Pawtucket Water Works . EAST PROVIDENCE . Water Works built in 1880 by the town . Engineer , C. H. M. Blake . Contractor , J. J. Newman , Providence . After the original ...
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... division of the Pawtucket Water Works . All data included under Pawtucket . NORTH PROVIDENCE . A large reservoir of the Providence Water Works erected at Fruit Hill . Lymansville supplied from the Providence Water Works . NORTH ...
... division of the Pawtucket Water Works . All data included under Pawtucket . NORTH PROVIDENCE . A large reservoir of the Providence Water Works erected at Fruit Hill . Lymansville supplied from the Providence Water Works . NORTH ...
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100 females 100 of American animals Apoplexy and Paralysis Average number Average severity believed source births Board of Health Bristol County Bronchitis Cancer CAUSES OF DEATH cent cesspool Cholera Infantum Consumption Croup decedents December Diarrhoea and Dysentery Diphtheria discharge diseases have prevailed disinfected disposal DIVISIONS divorce East Greenwich following Table following zymotic diseases foreign parentage gallons Gratuitous vaccination Health Officer inclusive infectious Kent County Malarial Males marriages Measles Mild months Newport City Newport County nuisances Number of Deaths Pawtucket Percentage persons married physicians pipe Pneumonia population proportion Providence City Providence County public health pumping returns of death Rheumatism Rhode Island sanitary Scarlatina scarlet fever sewage sewerage sewers shows the number Small prevalence South Kingstown Sporadic tank tion Town Clerk town council tuberculosis Typhoid Fever unusual fatality unusually large prevalence vaults Washington County Whole Number Whooping Cough Woonsocket zymotic disease epidemic zymotic diseases
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Page 153 - an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure...
Page 5 - Every dead body must be accompanied by a person in charge, who must be provided with a passage ticket and also present a full first-class ticket marked "Corpse...
Page 78 - Disinfection of Clothing. Boiling for half an hour will destroy the vitality of all known disease germs, and there is no better way of disinfecting clothing or bedding which can be washed than to put it through the ordinary operations of the laundry. No delay should occur, however, between the time of removing soiled clothing from the person or bed of the sick and its immersion in boiling water, or in one of the following solutions ; and no article should be permitted to leave the infected room until...
Page 79 - Soiled underclothing, bed linen, etc. : 1. Destruction by fire, if of little value. 2. Boiling for at least half an hour. 3. Immersion in a solution of mercuric chloride of the strength of 1 : 2000 for four hours.
Page 195 - ... do all in their power to ascertain the causes and the best means for the prevention of diseases of every kind in the state. They shall publish and circulate, from time to time, such information as they may deem to be important and useful for diffusion among the people of the state...
Page 80 - ... solution of carbolic acid, 2 per cent. For the person. — The hands and general surface of the body of attendants, of the sick, and of convalescents...
Page 77 - Lime of the best quality* in soft water, in the proportion of four ounces to the gallon. Use one pint of this solution for the disinfection of each discharge in cholera, typhoid fever, etc. Mix well and leave in vessel for a least ten minutes before throwing into privy-vault or water-closet.
Page 80 - Mercuric chloride, 1 : 1000 ; recommended only for the hands, or for washing away infectious material from a limited area, not as a bath for the entire surface of the body. For the Dead.
Page 5 - RULE 4. The bodies of persons dead of diseases that are not contagious, infectious, or communicable, may be received for transportation to local points in same state ; when encased in a sound coffin or metallic case, and enclosed in a strong wooden box.