Annual report of the Metropolitan Board of Health of the State of New York. v.4, 1869, Volume 4Appleton, & Company, 1870 |
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Page 213 - Never either use or furnish lymph which has in it any, even the slightest, admixture of blood. In storing lymph, be careful to keep separate the charges obtained from different subjects, and to affix to each set of charges the name, or the number in your register, of the subject from whom the lymph...
Page 446 - Fahrenheit, a very small flame shall be quickly passed across the surface of the oil on a level with the wire. If no pale blue flicker or flash is produced, the application of the flame is to be repeated for every rise of two or three degrees in the thermometer. When the flashing point has been noted, the test shall be repeated with a fresh sample of the oil, using cold, or nearly cold water as before ; withdrawing the source of heat from the outer vessel when the temperature approaches that noted...
Page 143 - All vessels from any place where pestilential, contagious or infectious disease existed at the time of their departure, or which shall have arrived at any such place and proceeded thence to New York, or on board of which during the voyage any case of such disease shall have occurred, arriving between the...
Page 446 - Any person guilty of violation of this section shall be fined not less than one thousand dollars and not more than five thousand dollars...
Page 190 - ... for the admission, employment, or continuance of a pupil or teacher, and the principal shall also enter in the register of the school the dates, as near as possible, of the respective vaccinations of the pupils and teachers...
Page 434 - ... away for use or be used as a burning fluid for any such lamp or receptacle, or be kept for such use, unless such oil or fluid shall be of such quality and ingredients that it shall stand and be equal to the following test and conditions, to wit...
Page 510 - ... part of that proportion, we shall be able to form some notion of the amount of sulphurous acid present. You will remember that the amount of carbonic acid furnished by the breath of one individual is equal to that furnished by two...
Page 454 - But the combustion of 1,500 feet of coal gas would produce something besides sulphurous acid. It would produce at least 1,000 cubic feet of carbonic acid, and in addition to its dilution by other gases and vapors, we should have our sulphurous acid diluted by 1,000 times its volume of carbonic acid. Now, if we can get at the proportion of carbonic acid in the atmosphere of a room highly illuminated with gas, and take the...
Page 454 - I am altogether at issue with the public when they maintain that the sulphur of gas produces, by its combustion, oil of vitriol, or that the amount of sulphur ordinarily contained in gas, is of any consequence whatever; and a little consideration will, I think, satisfy you of the soundness of this position. We will assume that...
Page 485 - This is another proof of the extreme stability of acetylene, particularly when mixed with a certain proportion of foreign gases. The same observations are applicable to the combustion of coal gas. The gases discharged into the air •whether by the flame of a burner known as the bat's•wing, or by the smoky flame of one of Bunsen's burners, contain a notable proportion of acteylene.