Annual Report of the State Board of Health and Vital Statistics of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Volume 7

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Página 13 - ... a QUARANTINE COMMISSION by the recent Legislature. In his third annual report to the Board, in 1887, the Secretary recommended that the Board urge upon his Excellency, the Governor of the Commonwealth, the importance of conferring with the Chief Executive of the neighboring States of Delaware and New Jersey and the United States Government with a view to the establishment of a thoroughly equipped quarantine station at some point farther down the river or bay than the present station at Tinicum...
Página 319 - Thus, in the districts with the least density, the deaths from consumption were 375, and in those of most density, 485 to 100,000 living ; while other lung diseases caused 914 deaths in the densest, against 659 in the least dense districts out of the same numbers living — the deaths out of the living, not the proportion they bear to the mortality from all causes, being the true index to the fatality of particular diseases.
Página iii - An act to establish a State Board of Health for the better protection of life and health, and to prevent the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in this Commonwealth...
Página 87 - An act to provide for the health and safety of persons employed in and about the coal mines of Michigan, for the appointment, qualifications, duties and compensation of an inspector of mines, and for the protection and preservation of property connected therewith...
Página 737 - Every person who shall willfully and maliciously kill, maim or disfigure any horse, cattle, dog or other domestic animals of another person; who shall willfully and maliciously administer poison to any such beasts, or expose any poisonous substance, with the intent that the same shall be taken or swallowed by them...
Página 387 - SEC. 16. The medical examiner may, if he deems it necessary, call a chemist to aid in the examination of the body or of substances supposed to have caused or contributed to the death, and such chemist shall be entitled to such compensation for his services as the medical examiner certifies to be just and reasonable, the same being audited and allowed in the manner herein provided. The clerk or amanuensis, if any, employed to reduce to writing the results of the medical examination or autopsy shall...
Página 428 - ... great and the cost of preparation so immense that the suggestion has been considered by high authorities to be hardly practicable. Moreover, it has been pretty well established that the putrefactive decomposition of solid excretal matter in soils gives rise to the production of malarial and parasitic diseases, and that such solid organic matters, after a time, will form a crust or cake upon and in the interstices of the soil, which gives off offensive and dangerous effluvia. Again, the subsoil...
Página 387 - The medical examiner may, if he deems it necessary, call a chemist to aid iii the examination of the body or of substances supposed to have caused or contributed to the death, and such chemist shall be entitled to such compensation for his services as the medical examiner certifies to be just and reasonable, the same being audited and allowed in the...
Página 295 - ... the advent of frost and winter weather. In the face of this broad fact, which is sustained by the unanimous testimony of many hundreds of epidemics, it is hardly possible not to believe that the yellow fever poison, or the yellow fever germ, can be destroyed by cold ; and if it can be destroyed by the natural cold of very mild winters, it would seem to follow that it can be destroyed, also, by cold artificially produced. The cases, so much discussed, of the Susquehanna and the Plymouth, have...
Página 177 - The number of marriages in which both parties were natives of the United States was three thousand four hundred and ninety-seven (3,497); those in which both parties were foreign born amounted to two thousand and eighty-three (2,083) ; in one hundred and sixty-seven (167) cases the nativities of both parties were not given.

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