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

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

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State Sanitation

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Published/Copyright: 1917

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
FOREWORD Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	v
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
PART III. SELECTIONS FROM THE REPORTS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE BOARD OF HEALTH
I. STATE MEDICINE Henry I. Bowditch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	3
II. THE PUBLIC HEALTH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	9
III. INTEMPERANCE IN THE LIGHT OF THE COSMIC LAW Henry I. Bowditch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	12
IV. PREVENTIVE MEDICINE AND THE PHYSICIAN OF THE FUTURE Henry I. Bowditch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	17
V. THE FILTRATION OF POTABLE WATER Nichols William Ripley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	26
VI. ON SOME IMPURITIES OF DRINKING – WATER CAUSED B Y VEGETABLE GROWTHS W. G. Farlow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	39
VII. A STUDY OF THE RELATIVE POISONOUS EFFECTS OF COAL AND WATER GAS William T. Sedgwick and Nichols William Ripley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	47
VIII. REPORT OF A COMMISSION TO CONSIDER A GENERAL SYSTEM OF DRAINAGE FOR THE VALLEYS OF THE MYSTIC, BLACKSTONE AND CHARLES RIVERS Henry P. Walcott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	58
IX. MICRO-ORGANISMS IN THE AIR OF THE BOSTON CITY HOSPITAL Greenleaf R. Tucker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	65
X. POLLUTION OF ICE SUPPLIES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	77
XI. REPORT OF THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH UPON THE SEWERAGE OF THE MYSTIC AND CHARLES RIVER VALLEYS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	86
XII. SUGGESTIONS AS TO THE SELECTION OF SOURCES OF WATER SUPPLY Frederic P. Stearns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	106
XIII. THE GROWTH OF CHILDREN STUDIED BY GALTON’S METHOD OF PERCENTILE GRADES H. P. Bowditch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	119
XIV. TYPHOID FEVER IN ITS RELATION TO WATER SUPPLIES Hiram F. Mills Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	131
XV. A CLASSIFICATION OF THE DRINKING-WATERS OF THE STATE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	139
XVI. THE EFFECT OF STORAGE UPON THE TASTE AND ODOR OF SURFACE WATERS Frederic P. Stearns and Thomas M. Drown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	144
XVII. THE POLLUTION OF STREAMS Frederic P. Stearns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	156
XVIII. THE FILTRATION OF SEWAGE, A GENERAL VIEW OF RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS AT THELAWRENCE EXPERIMENT STATION Hiram F. Mills Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	172
XIX. THE CHEMICAL PRECIPITATION OF SEWAGE Allen Hazen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	188
XX. MICROSCOPICAL ANALYSIS William T. Sedgwick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	192
XXI. INVESTIGATIONS UPON NITRIFICATION AND THE NITRIFYING ORGANISM Edwin O. Jordan and Ellen H. Richards Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	208
XXII. THE INTERPRETATION OF WATER ANALYSES Thomas M. Drown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	218
XXIII. SOME PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF SANDS AND GRAVELS, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THEIR USE IN FILTRATION Allen Hazen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	232
XXIV. REPORT OF THE JOINT BOARD UPON THE IMPROVEMENT OF CHARLES RIVER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	249
XXV. REPORT OF THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH UPON A METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLY Henry P. Walcott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	260
XXVI. A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE TOXIN PRODUCTION OF DIPHTHERIA BACILLI Theobald Smith and Ernest L. Walker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	274
XXVII. SANITARY CONDITION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE NEPONSET MEADOWS H. P. Walcott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	293
XXVIII. A MASSACHUSETTSLIFE TABLE FOR THE FIVE YEARS 1893-97 Samuel W. Abbott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	300
XXIX. REPORT OF THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH UPON THE GENERAL SUBJECT OF THE DISCHARGE OF SEWAGE INTO BOSTON HARBOR Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	317
XXX. EXAMINATION OF SEWER OUTLETS IN BOSTON HARBOR AND OF TIDAL WATERS AND FLATS FROM WHICH SHELLFISH ARE TAKEN FOR FOOD H. X. Goodnough Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	322
XXXI. INSPECTION OF DAIRIES Charles W. Harrington Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	333
XXXII. A REVIEW OF TWENTY - ONE YEARS EXPERIMENTS UPON THE PURIFICATION OF SEWAGE A T THE LAWRENCE EXPERIMENT STATION H. W. Clark and Stephen Dem. Gage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	341
XXXIII. THE OCCURRENCE OF INFANTILE PARALYSIS IN MASSACHUSETTS, 1907-12 Mark W. Richardson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	350
XXXIV. FOOD AND DRUG INSPECTION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE BOARD OF HEALTH Hermann C. Lythgoe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	366
PART IV. ABSTRACTS OF SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES AND REPORTS PUBLISHED IN THE REGULAR SERIES OF ANNUAL REPORTS
I. ABSTRACTS OF SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES AND REPORTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	377
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	443
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	460

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February 5, 1917

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Reprint 2014

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https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674600485

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Public health -- Massachusetts.; Massachusetts. Department of Public Health.

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