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66 furnaces 66 having damp 66 having offensive 66 having privy-vault 66 having ventilation 66 having water-closets 66 using furnaces abscess animals Apoplexy Average Age bad odors board of health Bright's disease Bronchitis Cancer causes Cholera-infantum City of Boston Copp's Hill cubic feet damp or unclean defective drains defective trapping Diphtheria disinfection Dorchester drains were found Erysipelas furnaces without proper Gallop's Island Graham court hospital inspection Inspector lungs Marasmus Measles Number of Deaths Number of houses occupied odors were perceptible offensive cesspools offensive water-closets Parentage Percentages privy-vault on premises proper air-supply Puerperal Puerperal fever Pyæmia quarantine Quarter removed reported respectfully sanitary condition scarlet fever school-houses Section sewer situated in Ward Small-pox soil-pipe or drain steamer street Syphilis Table tenement houses theria Total Deaths total number trapping was found tuberculosis Typhoid fever unclean cellars unclean yards vaccinated vaults found offensive ventilation to soil-pipe Whooping-cough yellow fever Zymotic Diseases
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Page 63 - ... shall be punished by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment, not exceeding ninety days, or by both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.
Page 64 - Any person who receives for care or treatment or has in his custody at any one time three or more infants under the age of three years, unattended by a parent or guardian, for the purpose of providing them with food, care and lodging, except infants related to him by blood or marriage, shall be deemed to maintain an infants
Page 69 - Boston for a stable unless first authorized thereto by the board of health of said city, and in such case only to the extent so authorized ; provided, that this act shall not prevent any such occupation and use authorized by law at the time of the passage of this act, to the extent so authorized.
Page 46 - ... wherever used in these regulations, shall be held to mean any building or portion thereof in which persons are lodged for hire for less than a week at one time.
Page 69 - SECT. 3. Chapter three hundred and sixty-nine of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, chapter one hundred and ninety-two of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.
Page 64 - Boston, in which such boarding house is to be. maintained. The state board of lunacy and charity and boards of health of cities and towns, except the city of Boston, shall annually, and may at all times, visit and inspect premises so licensed, and may at any time designate any person to visit and inspect said premises.
Page 35 - ... croup, which is conceded by the best medical authorities of the present day to be the same as diphtheria; seventh, the prohibition of public funerals in cases of diphtheria. The report of cases is evaded in many ways by using the term "laryngitis...
Page 74 - ... the Civil Service Commission three hundred and eightyeight men have been examined for appointment in the Police and in the Fire Departments. The bodies of six hundred and nineteen persons dying without a physician in attendance have been examined. These cases comprise principally those who die from chronic diseases, where there has been no medical care for months previous to death, and those who die suddenly from natural causes. In these a careful external examination is made, the symptoms learned,...
Page 68 - Boston for a stable unless such use is authorized by the board of health of said city, and in such case only to the extent so authorized, provided that this act shall not prevent any such occupation and use authorized by law at the time of the passage of this act, to the extent so authorized.
Page 2 - ... together with the deaths from violent causes, old age, Bright's disease and cancer, account for nearly one-half the total number of deaths. Of the deaths from preventable causes, diphtheria was the cause of the largest number, there having been 564 deaths from this disease and 450 from cholera infantum. The death-rate among children under five years of age was 35.41 per cent. against 35.2 the previous year, but still a comparatively low percentage of the total mortality. There has been no epidemic...