Eleventh Annual Report Of The Board Of Health Of The City Of Boston For The Financial Year 1882 83 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Eleventh Annual Report of the Board of Health of the City of Boston, for the Financial Year 1882-83 So few cases in our own city, with so much intercourse with other great centres of population where the disease has been so alarmingly prevalent, is due to the efficient legislation under which the Board of Health is enabled to act, prompt measures for isolation, thorough vaccination, and careful fumigation of infected premises and clothing. The decrease in the deaths of children under five years of age is highly satisfactory when the number of deaths of the past year is compared with the average number Of the previous ten years, or with the years 1880 and 1881. In the former year the number of infant deaths was and in the latter while in the past year the number was The percentages of the seven years previous show a steady and perceptible decrease. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Tenth Annual Report of the Board of Health of the City of Boston: For the Financial Year 1881-82 In other words, while the total mortality has increased with the growing population from deaths in 1872 to deaths in 1881, the deaths of children under five years have absolutely decreased from in 1872 to in 1881, showing that while the total mortality has increased nearly one thousand, the mortality among children has decreased one hundred. During the same period the total number of births recorded in the city increased from in 187 2 to in 1881. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Sixteenth Annual Report of the Board of Health of the City of Boston, for the Year 1887 The number of cases of contagious diseases reported to the Board of Health during the year 1887 was against in 1886. The total number of deaths from the same diseases in 1887 was 813, or 232 more than for 1886. Small-pox has been discovered in but four instances. They were removed to the hospital, and all recovered. In 1886 there was one case, and no death. Scarlet Fever was more prevalent, especially during the last quarter of the year, and the type was more severe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Health of the City of Boston, 1876 Page 25. - The number of still-births (452) does not include 38 unknown, probably still-born, found by the police. Page 26. - For 2278, 5316, 1111, and 454, read 2276, 5324, 1114, and 440. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Eighteenth Annual Report of the Board of Health of the City of Boston: For the Year 1889 The Board of Health respectfully submits its eighteenth annual report, covering the Work of this department for the year 1889. The deaths during the year numbered com pared with in 1888, making the death-rate for the year reckoning the present population of the city at This is a high rate, but it is necessary to analyze the list of deaths and their causes in order to see how far sanitary administration can be held responsible for this record. Of the deaths during the year, it will be, seen by the tables that but are due to causes which are generally classed under the head of preventable diseases. That is to say, per cent. Of the total deaths were from zymotic diseases, while per cent. Were from other causes. There were deaths from consumption, 938 from pneu monia, 448 from bronchitis, and 789 from heart-disease. These, together with the deaths from violent causes, Old age, Bright's disease, and cancer, account for nearly one-half the total number of deaths. Of the deaths from preventable causes, diphtheria was the cause of the largest number, there having been 564 deaths from this disease, and 450 from cholera-infantum. The death-rate among children under five years of age was per cent., against the previous year, but still a comparatively low percentage of the total mortality. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from First Annual Report of the Board of Health of the City of Boston, 1873 The ordinance relating to the public health, passed Dec. 2, 1872, provides that the Board of Health shall annually in the month of May or June, present to the City Council, a report made up to and including the thirtieth day of the preceding April, containing a full and comprehensive state ment of the acts of the Board during the year, and a review of the sanitary condition of the city; and they shall at the same time transmit to the City Council, reports from the Superintendent of Health, City Physician, and the Port Physician, covering the same period. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Eleventh Annual Report of the Boston Water Board: For the Year Ending December 31, 1886 In the Cochituate Department the cost of relaying pipes, replacement of insufficient sizes by larger, and of worn out pipes by new, was as against in2 city document No. 27. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Twenty-Fourth Annual Report of the Health Department of the City of Boston, for the Year 1895 Sir: The Board of Health respectfully submits its twenty-fourth annual report, covering the work of the Health Department for the past year, together with a state ment Of the receipts and expenditures of the Department from February 1, 1895, to February 1, 1896. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the Health Department of the City of Boston for the Year 1898 Sir, -the Board of Health respectfully submits its twenty-seventh annual report, covering the work of the Health Department for the past year, together with a statement of the receipts and expenditures of the department from February 1, 1898, to February 1, 1899. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.