First Annual Report Of The Board Of Health Of The City Of Boston 1873 Classic Reprint

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 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 Fourteenth Annual Report of the Board of Health of the City of Boston: For the Year 1885 The Board of Health respectfully submits its fourteenth report, the revised ordinances requiring the several depart ments to submit their reports in the month of January, instead of in May or June, as was provided in the Old ordi nances. 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 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 Ninth Annual Report of the Board of Health of the City of Boston: For the Financial Year 1880-81 Dead animals, such as horses, mules, Cows, pigs, and goats, are immediately removed from the city on notification to the proper parties. Offensive trades of nearly all kinds have been regulated. Slaughter-houses have been entirely aban doued, and the work is now all done in the Abattoir, whose capacity is increasing yearly, and which is conducted with very little offence to anybody. Bone-boiling and fat-render ing establishments, lime-kilns, phosphate works, and a variety of other Offensive trades, are scattered here and there about the city; but nearly all have undergone such modification within a few years as to be comparatively unobjectionable, and of which very few complaints are now made. The storing and curing of hides and horns within the city have been regulated and largely deprived of their offensive character. The wharves are kept in a clean and presentable condition. The condition of the principal markets of the city is a source of pride, and they are rarely found in any degree untidy. 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 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 Twenty-First Annual Report of the Health Department of the City of Boston, for the Year 1892 The statistics of mortality, as will be seen in the tables accompanying this report, show an increase in the number of deaths over the number of the previous year. At the com mencement of the year influenza was prevalent, and the deaths from this cause contributed largely to the increase of mortality, so that at the end of January the excess of deaths over those of the same period of the previous year was 296, and at the end of the first three months of the year the deaths were increased by 556, largely due to this cause. The total number of deaths for the year was Esti mating the population of the city at in the middle of the year, the death-rate per one thousand inhabitants is found to be This rate is 90 per thousand over the preceding year, and 50 per thousand over the average of the ten precedin'g years. The deaths from zymotic diseases show also an increase. This was especially the case in the mortality from diphtheria and scarlet fever, while the deaths from typhoid fever and measles showa decrease. The number of cases of diphtheria reported at this office during the year was being 49 more cases than the average of the ten preceding years. The deaths from this cause were 414, being 25 in excess of the average number for the same period. The character of the disease appears to have been more severe than was the case in preceding years, as over 30 per cent. Of the cases reported were fatal. 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 Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Health of the City of Boston: For the Year Ending April 30, 1877 It is our duty to lose no opportunity to impress upon you not only the present, but the immensely increasing, demand for a system of sewerage worthy of the name. We have not such a system to-day, and we can ill-afford to wait for the time necessary to make one. It is now two years since the City Council took the first, and a very important, step in this direction, by appointing a com mission of experts, who at an early day presented the Council with the groundwork, if not the best possible plan, for the construction of a complete system of sewerage. 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 Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Health of the City of Boston: For the Year Ending April 30, 1879 Agreeably to the ordinances relating to the public health, we herewith submit our annual report for the year ending April 30, 187 9. During the year our attention has been given, as usual, to such matters as are comprehended in the abatement of nuisances, examination of vacant lots, drains, offensive trades, tenement-houses, small-pox, scarlet fever, fish-peddlers, grease-collectors, removal of manure, care of burial-grounds, infant boarding-houses, lying-in hospitals, adulteration of food, and quarantine. Some of the subjects mentioned require a more extended notice, as will be seen elsewhere. 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.