Weekly Bulletin of the Department of Health of the City of New York, Volume 8

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Department of Health., 1919
 

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Page 211 - Public, health is purchasable. Within natural limitations a community can determine its own death rate.
Page 228 - At a meeting of the Board of Health of the Department of Health of the City of New York...
Page 360 - ... in the City of New York without a permit therefor issued by the Board of Health, or otherwise than in accordance with the terms of said permit and with the Regulations of said Board. By the term "modified milk" is meant milk of any subdivision of the classification known as "Grade A; for Infants and Children...
Page 360 - No horseshoeing establishment shall be conducted or maintained in the City of New York without a permit therefor issued by the Board of Health, or otherwise than in accordance with the terms of said permit and the Regulations of said Board.
Page 229 - Department, which does not appear to have been brought to the attention of the court, and which holds that the issuance of a prescription is a "dispensing" within the meaning of the law.
Page 10 - In measuring food value the word "calories" is used to express "heat units" — a calory is the amount of heat necessary to raise 1 gram of water 1 degree centigrade. The...
Page 58 - The Division of Venereal Disease, of the United States Public Health Service, is conducting, in co-operation with the State boards of health, approximately 175 clinics. The reports from the clinics show an increase in the number of cases treated each month, so that additional clinics and facilities are evidently needed. In conjunction with the Red Cross, the division is now conducting 25 clinics in extra cantonment zones.
Page 254 - ... justify the hope, though not the conclusion, that it has run its course already. It seems probable, however, that we may expect at least local recurrences in the near future, with an increase over the normal mortality from pneumonia for perhaps several years; and certainly we should be, as far as possible, prepared to meet them by previous organization of forces and measures for attempted prevention, treatment, and scientific investigation.
Page 142 - The sum of $1,000,000 which shall be paid to the States for the use of their respective boards or departments of health in the prevention, control, and treatment of venereal diseases ; this sum to be...
Page 17 - We will fight for the ideals and sacred things of the City both alone and with many. We will revere and obey the City's laws and do our best to incite a. like respect and reverence in those above us who are prone to annul or set them at naught We will strive unceasingly to quicken the public's sense of civic duty.

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