Report of the Department of Health of the City of Chicago1867-69 contains a sanitary history of Chicago from 1833 to 1870. |
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Page 14 - Gifford, or his said representatives, the sum of ten dollars, to be recovered in an action of debt, before any justice of the peace In the county of...
Page 121 - A watchful care over the health of the people, and a due regulation of matters which concern their health, is certainly one of the most important functions of Government. The fact that, in modern times, the subject of hygiene generally, and State medicine in particular, has commenced to attract so much the public, attention, is undoubtedly owing to the application of statistics to public health.
Page 123 - An act to amend an act entitled 'an act supplementary to an act to reduce the charter of the city of Chicago, and the several acts amendatory thereof, into one act, and to revise the same,' approved February 13, 1863, and the Which was read a first time, and Ordered to a second reading.
Page 332 - Society shall be as follows : 1. Reading of the minutes of the last meeting. . 2. Reports of Council and Committees.
Page 315 - SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That it shall be the duty of...
Page 322 - No person, master, captain or conductor in charge of any boat, vessel, railroad car or public conveyance shall knowingly bring into this city any person or persons diseased of cholera, small-pox, ship fever, or contagious or communicable disease whatsoever; and no vessel, boat, railroad car or public conveyance, at any time covered by the said proclamation, shall pass by any quarantine station or place without stopping, nor shall leave the same without the permit...
Page 328 - ... every physician, midwife, and other person who may professionally assist or advise at any birth, shall make and keep a registry of every such birth, and therein enter the time and place, ward, and street number of such birth, and the sex and color of every child born, and the names and residence of each of the parents (so far as the foregoing facts can be ascertained) ; and every...
Page 157 - I have the honor to present the following report for the year ending December 31, 1914.
Page 121 - The fact that, in modem times, the subject of hygiene generally, and State Medicine in particular, has commenced to attract so much the public attention, is undoubtedly owing to the application of statistics to public health. It is impossible for any nation, or for any Government, to remain indifferent when, in figures which admit of no denial, the national amount of health and happiness, or disease and suffering, is determined.