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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Page 91
... feet of soil which constitutes the surface of the earth , and that in soaking through this layer the organic mat- ters of a water are transformed into matters which the roots of living plants can absorb and assimilate . Chemical ...
... feet of soil which constitutes the surface of the earth , and that in soaking through this layer the organic mat- ters of a water are transformed into matters which the roots of living plants can absorb and assimilate . Chemical ...
Page 103
... feet to the edge of the high bluff forming the river bank , receiving just outside the front side - walk , the rainwater from the two front leaders . All the leaders are trapped outside the house wall . Reaching the river bank , the ...
... feet to the edge of the high bluff forming the river bank , receiving just outside the front side - walk , the rainwater from the two front leaders . All the leaders are trapped outside the house wall . Reaching the river bank , the ...
Page 107
... feet of air for each . The single rooms contain 1,188 cubic feet , with frequently two patients in a room . Added to this , the air of the cor- ridors is vitiated by 15 to 30 patients sleeping in them at night . These were only intended ...
... feet of air for each . The single rooms contain 1,188 cubic feet , with frequently two patients in a room . Added to this , the air of the cor- ridors is vitiated by 15 to 30 patients sleeping in them at night . These were only intended ...
Page 115
... feet deep , cased with iron pipe from thirty to fifty feet in length , driven tightly down and into the solid rock . The pump at the surface is sufficiently raised , from two to three feet above the ground level , and thus no ...
... feet deep , cased with iron pipe from thirty to fifty feet in length , driven tightly down and into the solid rock . The pump at the surface is sufficiently raised , from two to three feet above the ground level , and thus no ...
Page 125
... feet away , and at the point where it would be likely to drain the flow from the works , about six hundred and fifty feet . I was not able at OFF . Doc . ] 125 STATE BOARD OF HEALTH . Report of an Inspection at Doylestown, by William B ...
... feet away , and at the point where it would be likely to drain the flow from the works , about six hundred and fifty feet . I was not able at OFF . Doc . ] 125 STATE BOARD OF HEALTH . Report of an Inspection at Doylestown, by William B ...
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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.