Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts, 第 5 卷

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第 130 頁 - Correction, under such rules and regulations as may from time to time be adopted by the board of poor commissioners.
第 377 頁 - The territory of the town in which it operates should be divided into districts, and certain members be made responsible for the oversight of each district. It should frame and put in force as complete a code of health regulations as possible, based upon the provisions of law, so far as any may exist and apply. HEALTH REGULATIONS. — By the terms of the General Statutes,* a board is empowered to "make such regulations as it judges necessary for the public health and safety," and a penalty of "not...
第 271 頁 - Tyndall has proved that this particular absurdity may nevertheless be a reality. He has demonstrated that ordinary air is no better than a sort of stirabout of excessively minute solid particles...
第 110 頁 - KIRKWOOD (JAS. P.) Report on the Filtration of River Waters for the supply of Cities, as practised in Europe, made to the Board of Water Commissioners of the City of St. Louis. Illustrated by 30 double-plate engravings. 4i0, cloth IS oo LARRABEE (CS) Cipher and Secret Letter and Telegraphic Code, with Hogg's Improvements. The most perfect secret code ever invented or discovered. Impossible to read without the key.
第 360 頁 - The difficulties to be overcome in ventilating school-rooms are very great, but not too great to be conquered by intelligence and money, both of which are at our disposal, but neither of which is willingly applied to the problem of ventilation by building committees, with whom, rather than with architects, the responsibility seems to lie. Much valuable information. on this subject is accessible to the public in various treatises and reports, and the Report of the Massachusetts State Board of Health...
第 272 頁 - It is but the same principle of management, but with immeasurably greater vigilance and skill ; for the establishment which has to be kept in such exquisite perfection of cleanliness is an establishment which never rests from fouling itself, nor are there any products of its foulness— not even the least odorous of such products — which ought not to be regarded as poisonous.
第 395 頁 - defective house accommodations produce disease, immorality, pauperism and crime, from generation to generation, until vice has become a second nature, and morality, virtue, truth and honesty are to human beings so debased, mere names.
第 13 頁 - America have, in these later days, proved that residence on a damp soil brings consumption; and, second, that drainage of wet soil of towns tends to lessen the ravages of that disease. We have been taught by Murchison and others that fevers are often propagated by contaminated drinking-water or milk. Our own Board investigations have proved that contaminated air may also cause it. Still more recently cholera has been brought, in its origin and progress, under law, and we know how we could probably...
第 319 頁 - ... invariable condition: that human health, strength or comfort should in no manner or degree be impaired or vitiated thereby. "When the legislature grants the right to build a dam and flow the waters of streams and ponds, the grantee is held responsible for all the damage that may be caused thereby to lands, crops and other mills. All this is well, for these may be compensated in money; but besides this he should be held responsible that no damage shall be caused to human life and comfort by the...
第 361 頁 - As to the practice of ventilating in winter by opening windows, we say, in the words of Dr. Angus Smith, "though foul air is a slow poison, we must not forget that a blast of cold air may slay like a sword.

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