Report of the Department of Health of the City of Chicago. 1867/69Department of Health, 1871 |
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66 inflammation abate adopted appointed April attention August avenue Board of Health Board of Police Bridgeport canal CAUSES OF DEATH Cemetery Chicago River city of Chicago City Physician cleansing Commissioners Common Council congestion Day-scavenger dead animals December Delirium tremens directed discharge disinfected distilleries District dollars drainage drains duty Dysentery Erysipelas February feet fever filthy hæmorrhage Health Officer Hydrocephalus increase January July June lake Lake Michigan Liver main river March Mayor months morbus mortality necessary North Division November nuisances number of deaths October offal offensive Ordinance Committee owing Pest House population premises presented Public pumping quarantine rain recommended referred regulations removed Sanitary Committee sanitary condition Sanitary Inspectors Sanitary Police Sanitary Policemen Sanitary Superintendent scavenger Scrofula September sewerage sewers slaughter-houses slaughtering small-pox South Branch spleens streets and alleys temperature tion Total typhoid typhus Union Stock Yards vaccination Ward Whooping cough ΙΟ
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Page 320 - ... shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars, or...
Page 10 - Gifford, or his said representatives, the sum of ten dollars, to be recovered in an action of debt, before any justice of the peace In the county of...
Page 312 - ... and asking that the person charged with such violation be bound over to the next grand jury for said county; and it shall be the duty of the State's attorney for the county in which such violation occurs to prosecute such complaint as provided by law in other State cases.
Page 119 - An act to amend an act entitled 'an act supplementary to an act to reduce the charter of the city of Chicago, and the several acts amendatory thereof, into one act, and to revise the same,' approved February 13, 1863, and the Which was read a first time, and Ordered to a second reading.
Page 320 - If such application shall be granted, the applicant shall thereupon be required to enter into a bond, with one or more sureties, to be approved by the Mayor, in the penal sum of not less than one...
Page 117 - A watchful care over the health of the people, and a due regulation of matters which concern their health, is certainly one of the most important functions of Government. The fact that, in modern times, the subject of hygiene generally, and State medicine in particular, has commenced to attract so much the public, attention, is undoubtedly owing to the application of statistics to public health.
Page 310 - ... and cause to be done, such acts for the preservation of the public health (though not herein or elsewhere or otherwise authorized) as it may in good faith believe and declare the public safety and health demand...
Page 318 - No person, master, captain or conductor in charge of any boat, vessel, railroad car or public conveyance shall knowingly bring into this city any person or persons diseased of cholera, small-pox, ship fever, or contagious or communicable disease whatsoever; and no vessel, boat, railroad car or public conveyance, at any time covered by...
Page 318 - ... management thereof; and it shall be the duty of all persons in quarantine, and all agents, officers, policemen, or others employed by the city in and about said quarantine stations or places, to carry out and obey the same.
Page 309 - ... not inconsistent with the constitution or laws of this state, for the regulation of the action of said board, its officers and agents, in the discharge of its and their duties, and for the regulation of the citizens or public, and, from time to time, may alter, amend or annul the same.