National Board of Health bulletin. v. 1, 1879-80, Volume 1National Board of Health, 1880 |
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annual death-rate annual rate Asylum August authorities bill of health board of health BULLETIN burial permits cargo causes cent Cerebro-spinal fever Chattanooga cholera colored Conn Consul consumption contagious diseases County croup diarrhea Died diphtheria Discharged disinfection duty enteric fever epidemic Erysipelas Havana health officer Hospital for Insane Hospital Saint infected inspection inspector Island January July lung diseases malarial fever Mass measles Memphis miles Miss Mississippi month mortality in cities National Board number of deaths October Ohio Orleans passengers persons Philadelphia physician pneumonia population port present president Providence puerperal quarantine quarantine station Railroad Report of mortality River rules and regulations Saint Louis sanitary condition scarlet fever Sept September sick small-pox street Tenn theria tion total deaths Total number town typhoid fever Typhus United vaccination vessel Washington week ending Whooping cough whooping-cough yellow fever York
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Page 197 - ... which the inhabitants use, whether they be marshy and soft, or hard, and running from elevated and rocky situations, and then if saltish and unfit for cooking; and the ground, whether it be naked and deficient in water, or wooded and well watered, and whether it lies in a hollow, confined situation, or is elevated and cold; and the mode in which the inhabitants live, and what are their pursuits, whether they are fond of drinking and eating to excess, and given to indolence, or are fond of exercise...
Page 251 - States shall be required to obtain from the consul, vice-consul, or other consular officer of the United States at the port of departure, or from the medical officer where such officer has been detailed...
Page 17 - States, weekly reports of the sanitary condition of ports and places within the United States, and shall prepare, publish and transmit to...
Page 17 - Treasury, necessary to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States from foreign countries, or into one State or Territory or the District of Columbia...
Page 17 - SEC. 2. That any vessel at any foreign port clearing for any port or place in the United States shall be required to obtain from the consul, vice-consul, or other consular officer of the United States at the port of departure, or from...
Page 19 - Francisco, who refuses or omits: 1. To proceed with and anchor his vessel at the place assigned for quarantine, at the time of his arrival; or, 2.
Page 17 - ... prescribed for securing the best sanitary condition of the said vessel, its cargo, passengers, and crew ; and said consular or medical officer is required, before granting such duplicate bill of health, to be satisfied that the matters and things therein stated are true ; and for his services in that behalf he shall be entitled to demand and receive such fees as shall by lawful regulation be allowed, to be accounted for as is required in other cases.
Page 305 - The persons so appointed shall hold their offices for seven years ; Provided, That the terms of office of the seven first appointed shall be so arranged that the term of one shall expire on the thirtieth day of December of each year, and the vacancies so created, as well as all vacancies occurring otherwise, shall be filled by the Governor, with the...
Page 17 - ... weekly reports of the sanitary condition of the ports and places at which they are respectively stationed...
Page 305 - The State Board of Health shall have the general supervision of the interests of the health and life of the citizens of the State. They shall have charge of all matters pertaining to quarantine: and shall have authority to make such rules and regulations, and such sanitary investigations as they may from time to time deem necessary for the preservation or improvement of public health...