Annual Report of the State Board of Health and Vital Statistics of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Volume 4E.K. Meyers, State Printers, 1889 - Pennsylvania |
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... United States , and especially in this State . The four most for- midable of the preventable diseases , cholera , small - pox , typhoid fever and yellow fever , have all been at our doors ; two of them prevalent to an unusual extent ...
... United States , and especially in this State . The four most for- midable of the preventable diseases , cholera , small - pox , typhoid fever and yellow fever , have all been at our doors ; two of them prevalent to an unusual extent ...
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... United States for the grant of such portion of the reserve fund placed in his hands by Congress for meet- ing emergencies like the present , as may be necessary to immediately establish a National Quarantine Station , either on Pea ...
... United States for the grant of such portion of the reserve fund placed in his hands by Congress for meet- ing emergencies like the present , as may be necessary to immediately establish a National Quarantine Station , either on Pea ...
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... United States Marine Hospital Service , has not passed the United States Quarantine Station at the Breakwater . Our sympathy with sufferers of a stricken sister State has , there- fore , happily for us been born of the fellowship of ...
... United States Marine Hospital Service , has not passed the United States Quarantine Station at the Breakwater . Our sympathy with sufferers of a stricken sister State has , there- fore , happily for us been born of the fellowship of ...
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... United States warehouse as an observation depot . The only water supply is from hand pumps in wells . There are no water closets , or sewers , simply old privy vaults . There is no adequate pro- vision for unloading an infected cargo ...
... United States warehouse as an observation depot . The only water supply is from hand pumps in wells . There are no water closets , or sewers , simply old privy vaults . There is no adequate pro- vision for unloading an infected cargo ...
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... United States . New cases of this loathesome disease have frequently appeared of late , and it is quite time that the fact of its tendency to spread at present should be gen- erally recognized by the health authorities . The Secretary ...
... United States . New cases of this loathesome disease have frequently appeared of late , and it is quite time that the fact of its tendency to spread at present should be gen- erally recognized by the health authorities . The Secretary ...
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Page 388 - For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
Page 220 - Provided, that the provisions of this act shall not apply to mixtures or compounds recognized as ordinary articles or ingredients of articles of food, if...
Page 220 - drug," as used in this Act, shall include all medicines and preparations recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary for internal or external use, and any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used for the cure, mitigation, or prevention of disease of either man or other animals. The term
Page 1029 - An act to regulate the practice of pharmacy and sale of poisons and to prevent adulterations in drugs and medicinal preparations in the State of Pennsylvania...
Page 485 - Treasury to prevent the Introduction of contagious or Infectious diseases Into the United States...
Page 481 - The quarantines and other restraints established by the health laws of any State respecting any vessels arriving in, or bound to, any port or district thereof, shall be duly observed by the officers of the customs revenue of the United States, by the masters and crews of the several...
Page 426 - The said board of health shall have power, and it shall be their duty to make and enforce all needful rules and regulations to prevent the introduction and spread of infectious or contagious diseases by the regulation of intercourse with infected places, by the arrest, separation and treatment of infected persons, and persons who shall have been exposed to any infectious or contagious disease, aud by abating and removing all nuisances which they shall deem prejudicial to the public health...
Page 1008 - ... and cesspools, and to make all such other regulations as they shall deem necessary for the preservation of the public health.
Page 98 - ... of the pollution of such waters, and for removal of substances and causes of every kind which may be liable to cause pollution thereof, in order to protect and develop the rights and property of the Commonwealth therein and to protect the public health. It shall have authority to conduct experiments to determine the best practicable methods of purification of drainage and sewage or disposal of the same.
Page 219 - Pharmacopoeia, but which is found in some other pharmacopoeia or other standard work on Materia Medica, it differs materially from the standard of strength, quality, or purity laid down in such work. 3. If its strength or purity fall below the professed standard under which it is sold.