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... Ventilation , Heating , etc. 5. Climate - General and by Season of Year ; and as related to Age of In- habitants . 6. Disposal of Excreta and Decomposing Organic Matter . 7 . Poisons , Explosives , Chemicals , Accidents , and Special ...
... Ventilation , Heating , etc. 5. Climate - General and by Season of Year ; and as related to Age of In- habitants . 6. Disposal of Excreta and Decomposing Organic Matter . 7 . Poisons , Explosives , Chemicals , Accidents , and Special ...
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... ventilation , lighting and warming , the arefaction of bedding , clothing , walls and floors ; whether dwelling of brick , wood or stone ; habits of family , habits of invalid ; occupation of invalid and condition of place of labor ...
... ventilation , lighting and warming , the arefaction of bedding , clothing , walls and floors ; whether dwelling of brick , wood or stone ; habits of family , habits of invalid ; occupation of invalid and condition of place of labor ...
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... VENTILATION OF SOIL AND SEWER PIPES . All closed cesspools , sink or soil drains and sewer pipes , should be ventilated outside the house , by ventilating tubes or pipes opening above the eaves . Water traps of every kind have been ...
... VENTILATION OF SOIL AND SEWER PIPES . All closed cesspools , sink or soil drains and sewer pipes , should be ventilated outside the house , by ventilating tubes or pipes opening above the eaves . Water traps of every kind have been ...
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... ventilation , however , will greatly obviate the necessity of cementing , but absolute cleanliness is indispensable . As the warm season ap- proaches , sweep up and remove every particle of refuse , let in plenty of light and air , wash ...
... ventilation , however , will greatly obviate the necessity of cementing , but absolute cleanliness is indispensable . As the warm season ap- proaches , sweep up and remove every particle of refuse , let in plenty of light and air , wash ...
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... ventilation is indispensable in the sick room , some benefit may doubt- less be derived from the diffusion therein , of some disinfecting gas like chlorine or ozone . Saucers partly filled with Chloride of Lime may be set in different ...
... ventilation is indispensable in the sick room , some benefit may doubt- less be derived from the diffusion therein , of some disinfecting gas like chlorine or ozone . Saucers partly filled with Chloride of Lime may be set in different ...
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100 females acid American animals Apoplexy Apoplexy and Paralysis Board of Health Bristol County causes of death cent cesspools child Cholera Infantum city of Providence color-blind colored condition consumption croup Degree of severity Diarrhoea diet digestion Diphtheria divisions drain drainage East Greenwich epidemic following Table glanders heat Hooping Cough horses infant infection Kent County less Little Compton Lungs males to 100 marriages milk months mortality Newport City Newport county North Kingstown North Smithfield number of births number of deaths occurred Opium percentage period persons married physician pipes Pneumonia poison pond population present prevailed Providence City Providence County public health Quarter registration relation reported returns of deaths Rhode Island sanitary Scarlatina Scarlet Fever Secretary sewer shows the number sickness Smithfield soil stomach tion Total town clerks town council trap Typhoid Fever ventilation vessel Washington County whole number Woonsocket
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Page 23 - They shall make sanitary investigations and inquiries in respect to the people, the causes of disease, and especially of epidemics, and the sources of mortality, and the effects of localities, employments, conditions, and circumstances, on the public health...
Page 67 - Prevent friends from crowding around the patient and excluding fresh air; also from trying to give stimulants before the patient can swallow. The first causes suffocation; the second, fatal choking. Do NOT GIVE UP TOO SOON. You are working for life. Any time within two hours you may be on the very threshold of success without there being any sign of it.
Page 178 - ... moiety thereof to the use of the person who shall sue for the same, and the other moiety thereof to the use of the United States.
Page 184 - Monday of every month, to the town clerk of the town in which such rite shall have been performed; and no marriage shall be solemnized until the parties shall have signed and delivered to the person about to solemnize it, or to the clerk of a meeting of the Society of Friends, a certificate containing the information required for the record of a marriage, as prescribed by this chapter.
Page 191 - ... of this chapter, if a physician was in attendance upon such person who has deceased or the person bringing forth such still-born child, and shall return the same, together with his own certificate of the information required by section three of this chapter, to the town clerk of the town where such death or bringing forth took place...
Page 66 - Precious time is wasted, and the patient may be fatally chilled by exposure of the naked body, even in summer. Give all your attention and effort to restore breathing by forcing air into, and out of, the lungs. If the breathing has just ceased, a smart slap on the face, or a vigorous twist of the hair will sometimes start it again, and may be tried incidentally, as may also, pressing the finger upon the root of the tongue. Before natural breathing is fully restored do not let the patient lie on his...
Page 184 - ... of the parents, and the time of recording, so far as the same can be ascertained. The record of a...
Page 188 - ... poisons, nor prevent him from administering or supplying to his patients such articles as he may deem fit and proper ; nor shall it interfere with the making and dealing in proprietary...
Page 221 - These appear more or less rapidly one after another, according to the severity of the general disease, and vary in size from that of a pea to that of a walnut (hickory nut).
Page 188 - ... poison ; but all prescriptions, whether or not composed in part or in whole of any of said ingredients, shall be carefully kept by the pharmacist on a file or in a book, used for that purpose only, and numbered in the order in which they are received or dispensed, and every box, bottle, vial, vessel, or packet containing medicines so dispensed, shall be...