Annual report of the State Board of Health of the State of Rhode Island. 1889E. L. Freeman, 1890 |
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... parentage and ages ; 24 pages of causes of deaths and number , with comments and percentages ; and 24 pages of meteorological observations and summaries . Supervision is also given to printing , correcting proofs , addressing , wrapping ...
... parentage and ages ; 24 pages of causes of deaths and number , with comments and percentages ; and 24 pages of meteorological observations and summaries . Supervision is also given to printing , correcting proofs , addressing , wrapping ...
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... parentage of those born ; the number of marriages , with the nativity of those married ; the num- ber of deaths , with the sex and parentage of those who died ; the ag- gregate and average age of the decedents of each sex , and of the ...
... parentage of those born ; the number of marriages , with the nativity of those married ; the num- ber of deaths , with the sex and parentage of those who died ; the ag- gregate and average age of the decedents of each sex , and of the ...
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... parentage of those born ; the number of marriages , with the nativity of those married ; the num- ber of deaths , with the sex and parentage of those who died ; the ag- gregate and average age of the decedents of each sex , and of the ...
... parentage of those born ; the number of marriages , with the nativity of those married ; the num- ber of deaths , with the sex and parentage of those who died ; the ag- gregate and average age of the decedents of each sex , and of the ...
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... PARENTAGE . NATIVITY . SEX . PARENTAGE . Ages Given . Aggregate Age in years . AND DIVISIONS OF THE STATE . Whole Number . Males . Females . Barrington .. 27 13 14 16 7 12 11 Bristol . 100 51 49 49 31 231 16 3 Warren 87 42 45 34 36 9 39 ...
... PARENTAGE . NATIVITY . SEX . PARENTAGE . Ages Given . Aggregate Age in years . AND DIVISIONS OF THE STATE . Whole Number . Males . Females . Barrington .. 27 13 14 16 7 12 11 Bristol . 100 51 49 49 31 231 16 3 Warren 87 42 45 34 36 9 39 ...
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... PARENTAGE DEATHS , 1888 . Ages Given . Aggregate Average Age Age in years . in years . Females . Males . Females . Males . Females . Aggregate Age in years of all . years of all . 59 64 50 73 55 61 1.546 2 100 52 48 69 31 51 48 2,005 9 ...
... PARENTAGE DEATHS , 1888 . Ages Given . Aggregate Average Age Age in years . in years . Females . Males . Females . Males . Females . Aggregate Age in years of all . years of all . 59 64 50 73 55 61 1.546 2 100 52 48 69 31 51 48 2,005 9 ...
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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.