Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Connecticut, Volume 8Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1886 |
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Page 332 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Page 211 - Physiological and Pathological Laboratory of the Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York ; Lecturer on Normal Histology in Yale College.
Page 117 - That any person convicted of a willful violation of any of the provisions of the preceding section shall be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the court.
Page 332 - In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a State, And sovereign Law, that State's collected will O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits Empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Page 7 - Such a ministry," says Dr. Farr, " would divide itself into four departments — administration, medicine, engineering, statistics — each of which should be organized so as to work in harmony with a council of health and executive heads. Each town should have its board of health and its health physician in communication with and in aid of the Central Board of Health.
Page 15 - Monday of December in each year to make a report in writing' to the governor of the state, upon the vital statistics and the sanitary condition and prospects of the state...
Page 39 - ... and drinks — would reduce the sickness and deaths from other diseases, even if cholera did not come. The weekly reports for July, 1885, to the Michigan State Board of Health, by physicians in different parts of the State, indicate that this claim is being realized in Michigan, so far as relates to the lessened sickness — it having been lessened from nearly every disease, and greatly lessened from fevers and from diarrhoeal and other diseases believed to be especially influenced by sanitary...
Page 15 - That the secretary shall keep a record of the acts and proceedings of the board, perform and superintend the work prescribed in this act, and such other duties as the board may order...
Page 15 - ... thousand dollars, which shall be paid him in the same manner as the salaries of other state officers are paid, and such...
Page 262 - ... experience, beyond that pertaining to all intelligent educated men who take an interest in sanitary matters, to guide him in forming an opinion as to what may or may not be the conditions under which diseases may arise that are the outcome of unwholesome surroundings, and the sooner this is recognised and the matter relegated, in disputed cases, to those who are alone competent to give an authoritative opinion, viz : — those, who, practising medicine have made hygiene a special study, so much...