The Sanitary Condition of BostonRockwell and Churchill, 1875 - 199 pages |
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age at death age-distribution amount Annual Report appears average age birth-rate births Board of Health Bright's disease bronchitis census cent cerebro-spinal cholera infantum City Registrar classes compared constitute consumption death-rate of Boston deaths by phthisis deaths by small-pox deaths under five decedents decennial diarrhoeal diseases diphtheria districts endemic England English enteric fever epidemic excessive facts fatal figures filth foreign inhabitants foreign parentage foreign population foreign-born hydrocephalus hygiene infant mortality infantile infection influence Integumentary System investigations Irish inhabitants Lake Cochituate living London Massachusetts mean age mean death-rate mean rate measles meningitis milk nationality native and foreign number of deaths occurring percentage of deaths pneumonia prevail prevention rates of mortality ratio of deaths regards registration reports sanitary condition sanitation scarlatina scarlet fever scrofula sewage sewers small-pox specified diseases tality tion towns tubercular disease typhoid fever unhealthy urban vaccination wards whooping-cough yearly mortality zymotics
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Page 115 - ... with intent to sell or exchange, or exposes or offers for sale or exchange, adulterated milk, or milk to which water or any foreign substance has been added...
Page 129 - In proportion as the male and female populations are severally attracted to in-door branches of industry, .in such proportion, other things being equal, their respective death-rates by phthisis are increased.
Page 105 - ... fever, but, further, that they have seemed capable of doing this mischief in a doubly distinctive way : first, as though by some aptitude which other nuisances of organic decomposition, though perhaps equally offensive, have not seemed equally or nearly equally to possess ; and secondly, as though this specific property, so often attaching to them in addition to their common septic unwholesomeness, were not, even in them, a fixed property.
Page 115 - ... from carriages or other vehicles, or has it in his custody or possession with intent so to sell, and whoever violates any of the provisions of this section, shall for a first offence be punished by...
Page 10 - mean age at death" would have been found still lower. Mr. Grainger states, in his interesting Report, that the majority of dress-makers are between the ages of 16 and 26; and it is understood that if they die after they marry they are not often designated by that title in the register. This source of error and the increase of population will be found to affect the estimate of the influence of other occupations. That the lives of dress-makers are very much shortened by the severe hardships and ignorant...
Page 195 - Scotch, an evenness in the distribution of the body of deaths among the several groups, with marked exception only of the diseases of the nervous system, and of the organs of locomotion, the most noticeable exemptions among the specific diseases being small-pox, scrofula, and the fevers ; the most noticeable instances of liability, cancers, paralysis, erysipelas, measles and whooping-cough.
Page 105 - Department during the four years 1870—3 in this particular branch of disease-production : and such illustrations might be multiplied to any desired extent. The experience is, not only that privies and privy-drainage, with their respective stinkings and soakings, and the pollutions of air and water which are thus produced, have in innumerable instances been the apparent...
Page 103 - Table showing relative mortality for Ten Years from Typhoid Fever in persons above five years of age, in the larger and smaller Cities and Towns. There can be no doubt that typhoid in Massachusetts, is a disease of scattered communities rather than of crowded towns, of rural rather than of urban districts. In spite of the smaller mortality from all causes, typhoid is more destructive in the farming towns than in the manufacturing towns and the large cities.
Page 7 - average age of decedents" or " mean age at death " is obtained by summing up the ages at which people die, and dividing the number of years by the number of deaths...
Page 103 - An Inquiry into the Causes of Typhoid Fever as it occurs in Massachusetts,