Annual Report of the Board of Health of the Department of Health

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Side 110 - Moving picture shows were given to patients in the Riverside Hospital, and 270 health reels loaned to schools, settlement houses, theatres, etc. MISCELLANEOUS ACTIVITIES. The Bureau prepared for publication a monthly publication to be sent to all the druggists in this city. In co-operation with the Secretary of the Committee for the Prevention of Tuberculosis of the Charity Organization Society, a questionnaire was sent to the various social, civic and other agencies in this city, in order to determine,...
Side 114 - ... that of the 76,000 deaths reported, 54,000 were caused by ten diseases — in other words, that these ten diseases were responsible for 71% of the mortality of the city — and that the other 179 causes appearing in the international classification were responsible for only 29%. [See also Tables 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14, and Chart ".Death Rates for Contagious Diseases."] Of these ten causes, Organic Heart Disease led all others in the magnitude of its mortality, and when combined with Chronic...
Side 25 - The needs of a community's health should be recognized by the financial officers, as they have been accepted by the laws and courts of the state, as superior to all other rights, material or aesthetic. Personal service to detect and control disease is a laudable excuse for an increase in the tax rate. The results warrant the expense. Economy of service has been practiced until study of new problems and investigation of promising preventive measures have become all but impossible without interfering...
Side 162 - Corrected death rate means that the death rate of each borough is corrected by the exclusion of the deaths of residents of other boroughs occurring within its limits and the inclusion of the deaths of residents of the borough occurring in other boroughs.
Side 78 - Artificial" waters. This practice has been discontinued, and the whole subject is now undergoing readjustment. The distilled waters sold throughout the city have not been found free from fault. When colon bacilli were found on bacteriologic examination, the manufacturers were notified that their faulty methods must be corrected ; as a rule they have complied. Saccharine. In the spring of 1915, a case was brought to test that regulation of the Department prohibiting the use of saccharine in food....
Side 34 - ... for any particular purpose, a form was inaugurated for monthly distribution showing the following facts : 1. Amount of annual appropriation for supplies (each appropriation item to be separately stated). 2. Amount of monthly appropriation calculated as one-twelfth of annual appropriation. 3. Amount of requisitions, item by item, during the month covered by the report. 4. Amount available for the period since the beginning of the fiscal year (on a pro-rata basis).
Side 65 - ... conditions were discovered which did not fall into the above class the application was refused for physical incapacity, for the reason that the examining physician under these circumstances could not certify, as required by law, that the child had reached the normal development of a child of its age, and was in sound health and physically able to perform the work which intended to be done. A standard of the normal development of a child between 14 and 16 years was obtained through the co-operation...
Side 28 - No. 1, states: It was designated as an experimental district. First: to demonstrate the feasibility of combining the Health Department functions of the district under the direction of a local health officer...
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Side 36 - Provision was made for additional facilities outside of office hours wltich eliminated the former frequent complaints from those having business with the Department on Saturday afternoons and holidays. TABLE 1. COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF EXPENSES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TABLE 2. COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS OF THE DEPARTMENT TURNED OVER TO THE GENERAL FUND. *Receipts...

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