Report of a Survey of the Health Department and Other Health Agencies in the District of Columbia Made in 1937-38 |
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... cities , prepared by the committee on adminis- trative practice of the American Public Health Association . While the conclusions upon which the recommendations have been made are not based upon the score attained in this appraisal form ...
... cities , prepared by the committee on adminis- trative practice of the American Public Health Association . While the conclusions upon which the recommendations have been made are not based upon the score attained in this appraisal form ...
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... cities of the country , the fourteenth in point of size . According to the census of 1930 , colored people comprised 27.1 percent of the total population . There were comparatively few foreign - born residents . The city of Washington ...
... cities of the country , the fourteenth in point of size . According to the census of 1930 , colored people comprised 27.1 percent of the total population . There were comparatively few foreign - born residents . The city of Washington ...
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... cities by municipal corporations or boards , in the District of Co- lumbia all laws relating to health are enacted by the Congress of the United States . Therefore , the control of public health matters in the city of Washington is ...
... cities by municipal corporations or boards , in the District of Co- lumbia all laws relating to health are enacted by the Congress of the United States . Therefore , the control of public health matters in the city of Washington is ...
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... cities there are boards of health or health councils which meet with and advise the executive officer in pro- cedure and matters of policy . Such a system often has points of merit in that responsibility is shared by the persons ...
... cities there are boards of health or health councils which meet with and advise the executive officer in pro- cedure and matters of policy . Such a system often has points of merit in that responsibility is shared by the persons ...
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... subsidiaries of health departments are being successfully op- erated in a number of large cities . In New York City , for instance , it is planned to have 32 health centers , each 18 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HEALTH AND HOSPITAL SURVEY.
... subsidiaries of health departments are being successfully op- erated in a number of large cities . In New York City , for instance , it is planned to have 32 health centers , each 18 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HEALTH AND HOSPITAL SURVEY.
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additional adequate admission agencies arsphenamine assistant attendance average Balti building bureau of maternal bureau of public cancer Census centers Child Welfare Society child-hygiene cities communicable diseases Community Chest conferences court dairy death rate diphtheria director District of Columbia examinations facilities field nurses fiscal Freedmen's Hospital full-time Gallinger Hospital George Washington University Glenn Dale gonorrhea health department hygiene increase inspection institutions Instructive Visiting Nurse laboratory maternal and child medical inspectors ment milk mortality Negro number of patients nurseries nursing service obstetric out-patient period personnel physicians pneumonia population prenatal clinic preschool present public health nursing Public Health Service received recommended records registered sanitary sanitation scarlet fever social staff stillbirths supervision survey syphilis TABLE tion total number treatment tuberculosis United States Public venereal disease Visiting Nurse Society vital statistics wards Washington Wassermann tests white and colored women
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Page 265 - ... shall be punished by a fine of not less than $10 nor more than $100, or by imprisonment for not less than 10 days nor more than 30 days in the workhouse or jail of the District of Columbia or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Page 361 - From these figures it will be noted that there has been a steady increase in the number of employees in the manufactures, mines, and quarries of each of the States specified.
Page 265 - ... if any person shall be drunk or intoxicated in any street, alley, or public or private road or in any railroad passenger train, street car, or any public place or building, or at any public gathering, or if any person shall be drunk or intoxicated and shall disturb the peace of any person...
Page 260 - States, not capital or otherwise infamous, and not punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary, committed within the District of Columbia, except libel, conspiracy, and violations of the postoffice and pension laws of the United States, and also of all offenses of persons under seventeen years of age hereafter committed against the laws, ordinances, and regulations of the District of Columbia...
Page 293 - Teaches patient and family the importance of personal hygiene, and the precautions to be taken to prevent the spread of infection.
Page 294 - Teaches the need of medical care and assists family to secure it. 3. Gives or arranges for necessary nursing care, teaches through demonstration and supervises care given by relatives and attendants. 4. Assists the family to carry out isolation and general and specific medical instructions. 5. Interprets health department procedure to individuals and groups. 6. Assists under authority of the health department in making epidemiological investigations. 7. Instructs parents, teachers, and other individuals...
Page 294 - To carry out proper precautions to prevent the spread of infection. c. To appreciate the importance of adequate convalescent care. 8. Helps under medical direction to secure specific immunization of all infants and preschool children and of other age groups as needed.
Page 242 - Any patient who is not recovered but whose discharge, in the judgment of the superintendent, will not be detrimental to the public welfare, or injurious to the patient...
Page 265 - ... any other vehicle commonly used for the transportation of passengers, or in or about any depot, platform or waiting station, drink any alcoholic liquor of any kind, or if any person shall be drunk or intoxicated in any street, alley, or public or private road...
Page 295 - Assists in the control of communicable diseases through teaching the recognition of early symptoms, the importance of isolation and the value of immunization.