State Sanitation : : A Review of the Work of the Massachusetts State Board of Health. / Volume II, : State Sanitation: A Review of the Work of the Massachusetts State Board of Health, Volume II.

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• VerfasserIn: Whipple, George Chandler,
• MitwirkendeR: Abbott, Samuel W.,; Bowditch, H. P.,; Bowditch, Henry I.,; Clark, H. W.,; Drown, Thomas M.,; Farlow, W. G.,; Gage, Stephen Dem.,; Goodnough, H. X.,; Harrington, Charles W.,; Hazen, Allen,; Jordan, Edwin O.,; Lythgoe, Hermann C.,; Mills, Hiram F.,; Richards, Ellen H.,; Richardson, Mark W.,; Ripley, Nichols William,; Sedgwick, William T.,; Smith, Theobald,; Stearns, Frederic P.,; Tucker, Greenleaf R.,; Walcott, H. P.,; Walcott, Henry P.,; Walker, Ernest L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1917
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Series: State Sanitation ; Volume II
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (452 p.) :; 1 Frontispiz

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- FOREWORD -- CONTENTS -- PART III. SELECTIONS FROM THE REPORTS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE BOARD OF HEALTH -- I. STATE MEDICINE -- II. THE PUBLIC HEALTH -- III. INTEMPERANCE IN THE LIGHT OF THE COSMIC LAW -- IV. PREVENTIVE MEDICINE AND THE PHYSICIAN OF THE FUTURE -- V. THE FILTRATION OF POTABLE WATER -- VI. ON SOME IMPURITIES OF DRINKING – WATER CAUSED B Y VEGETABLE GROWTHS -- VII. A STUDY OF THE RELATIVE POISONOUS EFFECTS OF COAL AND WATER GAS -- VIII. REPORT OF A COMMISSION TO CONSIDER A GENERAL SYSTEM OF DRAINAGE FOR THE VALLEYS OF THE MYSTIC, BLACKSTONE AND CHARLES RIVERS -- IX. MICRO-ORGANISMS IN THE AIR OF THE BOSTON CITY HOSPITAL -- X. POLLUTION OF ICE SUPPLIES -- XI. REPORT OF THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH UPON THE SEWERAGE OF THE MYSTIC AND CHARLES RIVER VALLEYS -- XII. SUGGESTIONS AS TO THE SELECTION OF SOURCES OF WATER SUPPLY -- XIII. THE GROWTH OF CHILDREN STUDIED BY GALTON’S METHOD OF PERCENTILE GRADES -- XIV. TYPHOID FEVER IN ITS RELATION TO WATER SUPPLIES -- XV. A CLASSIFICATION OF THE DRINKING-WATERS OF THE STATE -- XVI. THE EFFECT OF STORAGE UPON THE TASTE AND ODOR OF SURFACE WATERS -- XVII. THE POLLUTION OF STREAMS -- XVIII. THE FILTRATION OF SEWAGE, A GENERAL VIEW OF RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS AT THELAWRENCE EXPERIMENT STATION -- XIX. THE CHEMICAL PRECIPITATION OF SEWAGE -- XX. MICROSCOPICAL ANALYSIS -- XXI. INVESTIGATIONS UPON NITRIFICATION AND THE NITRIFYING ORGANISM -- XXII. THE INTERPRETATION OF WATER ANALYSES -- XXIII. SOME PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF SANDS AND GRAVELS, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THEIR USE IN FILTRATION -- XXIV. REPORT OF THE JOINT BOARD UPON THE IMPROVEMENT OF CHARLES RIVER -- XXV. REPORT OF THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH UPON A METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLY -- XXVI. A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE TOXIN PRODUCTION OF DIPHTHERIA BACILLI -- XXVII. SANITARY CONDITION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE NEPONSET MEADOWS -- XXVIII. A MASSACHUSETTSLIFE TABLE FOR THE FIVE YEARS 1893-97 -- XXIX. REPORT OF THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH UPON THE GENERAL SUBJECT OF THE DISCHARGE OF SEWAGE INTO BOSTON HARBOR -- XXX. EXAMINATION OF SEWER OUTLETS IN BOSTON HARBOR AND OF TIDAL WATERS AND FLATS FROM WHICH SHELLFISH ARE TAKEN FOR FOOD -- XXXI. INSPECTION OF DAIRIES -- XXXII. A REVIEW OF TWENTY - ONE YEARS EXPERIMENTS UPON THE PURIFICATION OF SEWAGE A T THE LAWRENCE EXPERIMENT STATION -- XXXIII. THE OCCURRENCE OF INFANTILE PARALYSIS IN MASSACHUSETTS, 1907-12 -- XXXIV. FOOD AND DRUG INSPECTION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE BOARD OF HEALTH -- PART IV. ABSTRACTS OF SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES AND REPORTS PUBLISHED IN THE REGULAR SERIES OF ANNUAL REPORTS -- I. ABSTRACTS OF SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES AND REPORTS -- INDEX -- Backmatter