Annual report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts. 1873Wright & Potter, 1874 |
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Page 156 - Correction, under such rules and regulations as may from time to time be adopted by the board of poor commissioners.
Page 433 - In the new model school house the hot air enters at two registers in the floor on one side, and makes (or is supposed to make) its exit by a ventilator at the floor on the other side of the room. The master said the air was supposed to have some degree of intelligence and to know that the ventilator was its proper exit.
Page 396 - ... become established among us, a certain number might suffer restraint not absolutely demanded; but the general result would be an incalculable gain to the health, present and prospective, of the inhabitants of this Commonwealth.
Page 132 - KIRKWOOD (JAS. P.) Report on the Filtration of River Waters for the supply of Cities, as practised in Europe, made to the Board of Water Commissioners of the City of St. Louis. Illustrated by 30 double-plate engravings. 4i0, cloth IS oo LARRABEE (CS) Cipher and Secret Letter and Telegraphic Code, with Hogg's Improvements. The most perfect secret code ever invented or discovered. Impossible to read without the key.
Page 417 - But a most unexpected result of it has been to prove that these "half-time" scholar-s learn quite as much as the children who are in the same schools twice as many hours a day. And as it would be admitted that true hygienic conditions would be much better secured by a system which should require but half the time now given to study, and yet accomplish as much as at present, while in the remaining half of the school-day it trained the children...
Page 380 - Under appropriate influences," says he, "insanity is among the most curable of grave diseases. If the persons who are attacked with this disorder are as promptly cared for as others when attacked with fever, dysentery, pneumonia, etc., 80 or 90 per cent, can be restored to health and usefulness."* But even this is the expression of a hypothesis which requires, as is shown above, an impossibility, — the placing of the patient under treatment as immediately as in the other serious diseases mentioned.
Page 478 - Board, shall not permit any clothing or other property that may have been exposed to infection to be removed from the house. Nor shall any occupant...
Page 487 - From the evidence presented in the preceding pages, it seems reasonable to believe that the use of lead pipe for the conveyance of drinking water is always attended with a certain degree of danger, because such water always contains lead ; and that this danger varies in degree with the character of the water conveyed and the susceptibility to lead poison of those who drink it.
Page 395 - At certain periods, I think that study, with girls, should wholly cease for some days. Any one who has taught boys and girls — in separate schools, I mean — must have noticed the greater proportionate irregularity of attendance by the latter ; and, as a parent, he would readily know the reason, and know the necessity of cessation from work. " I refer to girls between twelve and twenty years of age.
Page 472 - defective house accommodations produce disease, immorality, pauperism and crime, from generation to generation, until vice has become a second nature, and morality, virtue, truth and honesty are to human beings so debased, mere names.