Annual report of the Department of Health of the State of New Jersey. 1891-92State Department of Health, 1891 |
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abated ADDRESS OF MEMBERS animals Assessor Atlantic Atlantic county bacilli Bergen Board of Health borough Brunswick building Burlington Camden cause cellars cent cesspools Charles cholera Circular cisterns clean complaints contagious diseases death-rate deaths diphtheria disinfection drainage Egg Harbor City epidemic fact feet garbage George HEALTH INSPECTOR heat Hoboken houses inches infected inspection Jersey City John located matter means measles MEMBERS AND HEALTH methods milk Monmouth county month Morris county NAMES AND POST NAMES AND POST-OFFICE Newark nuisances Number of inmates Ocean OFFICE ADDRESS Orange ordinances organized P. O. Address Passaic Paterson persons physicians pipe population POST-OFFICE ADDRESS present President prevalent diseases Prof public health quarantine river sanitary condition scarlet fever Secretary sewage sewerage sewers slaughter-houses small-pox soil streets supply temperature Tenafly tion town township trap Trenton tuberculosis typhoid fever vaccination ventilation vital statistics Ward water-supply William
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Page 382 - February, transmit to the secretary of the Commonwealth, certified copies of the records of the births, marriages, and deaths, •which have occurred therein during, the year ending on the last day of the preceding December.
Page 120 - An act to prevent the adulteration and to regulate the sale of milk," approved March fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two.
Page 380 - ... having the custody of the records of births, marriages and deaths in the city or town in which the person deceased came to his death, the name and residence of the person deceased, if known, or, when the name and residence...
Page 378 - ... in the sum of five thousand dollars, for the faithful performance of such duties.
Page 451 - Articles too valuable to be destroyed should be treated as follows : (a.) Cotton, linen, flannels, blankets, etc., should be treated with the boiling-hot zinc solution ; introduce piece by piece, secure thorough wetting, and boil for at least half an hour.
Page 18 - As a rule it is found that there are fewer bacteria in very deep wells, or at the sources of most rivers, yet even here there are some unaccountable contradictions. Not to allude to the evidence of Percy Frankland and others noted in previous reports, Dr. GC Currier read, February, 1891, before the American Society of Civil Engineers, a biological study on the " SelfPurification of Flowing Water, and the Influence of Polluted Water in the Causation of Disease.
Page 380 - The court or trial justice shall thereupon hold an inquest, which may be private, in which case any or all persons other than those required to be present by the provisions of this chapter may be excluded from the place where...
Page 380 - The coroner shall, after hearing the testimony, draw up and sign a report, in which he shall find and certify when, where, and by what means the person deceased came to his death; his name, if known, and all material circumstances attending his death; and if it appears that his death resulted wholly or in part from the unlawful act of any other person, he shall further state the...
Page 390 - It shall be the duty of the coroner, on being informed of the violent death of any person within his jurisdiction, the cause of which is unknown, immediately to proceed to view the body and make all proper inquiry respecting the cause and manner of the death...
Page 114 - ... per cent.; in gain of chest 42 per cent., and in gain of lung capacity 75 per cent. Again, in France, the difference between the students in the polytechnic schools who smoked cigarettes and those who did not, in scholarship, as shown by their respective class standings, was so great that the government prohibited absolutely the use of tobacco in all government schools.