Annual report of the Provincial Board of Health of Ontario being for the year ... 1892Board of Health of Ontario, 1893 |
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Pagina 3 - Healtk may not be too easily lulled into a condition of false security, i have the honor to remain, Your obedient servant, JNO. J. OASSIDY, Chairman. PART I. REPORT OF THE SECRETARY CHAPTER I. To the Chairman and Members of the Provincial Board of Health : GENTLEMEN, — In referring to the chief features which have marked the Board's work during the year, I find that they are especially characterized by the details of executive work which seem to be increasing from year to year, and in some ways...
Pagina 79 - With larger volumes (of water) the pollution (from 2.5 to 7.0 cubic feet per second per 1,000 persons) is so small as to be clearly admissible from the standpoint of the offensiveness of the water." Then he adds: " In a stream used for domestic water supply it cannot be said, with our present knowledge, that any degree of dilution will make the water entirely safe for use.
Pagina 73 - The Lowell and Lawrence outbreak in Massachusetts in 1890 is a similar instance, although the pollution, especially of the Lawrence water, had for years given these towns an unenviable notoriety in the matter of typhoid prevalence. The following extract from the annual report of the Massachusetts State Board of Health for...
Pagina 79 - ... together with any suggestions which it may deem advisable ; and to cause copies of the said report to be transmitted to the minister of the department to which the said Provincial Board of Health is attached, and to the clerk of the Municipal Council, and the Secretary of the local Board of Health of the district interested. No sewer or appliance for the ventilation of the same shall be constructed in violation of any of the principles laid down by the Provincial Board of Health, subject to appeal...
Pagina 27 - Farr remarks, was increased twenty-four per cent, to typhus fifty-five percent, in the town districts; but as the absolute mortality from consumption is three times as great as from typhus in towns, and nearly four times as great in the country, the excess of deaths from consumption, caused by the insalubrity of towns, is greater than the excess of deaths by typhus, a fact which has been hitherto overlooked.
Pagina 67 - That in the opinion of this Conference it is desirable that the Federal and Provincial authorities co-operate in the work of collecting, compiling and publishing the vitU statistic* for the Dominion.
Pagina 28 - ... diseases caused 914 deaths in the densest against 659 in the least dense districts out of the same numbers living, the deaths out of the living, not the proportion they bear to the mortality from all causes, being the true index to the fatality of particular diseases.
Pagina 41 - ... and brings down with it the bacteria so that they are more easily removed by filtration. The filtration takes place through sand contained in large horizontal cylinders, provision being made for the reversal of the stream of water once in twenty-four hours so as to thoroughly cleanse the filters. In St. Thomas there are two of these filters, each with a filtering capacity of 500,000 gallons, and they are at present putting in an additional one.
Pagina 29 - Similarly, according to Hirsch, " Smith has ascertained for one thousand persons treated for consumption at the Brompton hospital, that seventy per cent of them had been in the habit of spending their time in overcrowded, hot and dusty places indoors.
Pagina 56 - ... year 1892, who says that he has just cause to suspect and believe, and does suspect and believe that Captain Neil McDonald, on board steamer Labelle, George Gabourg, Peter Bovan, James Walker, Wm. Cobb, Geo. Giblan, Jas. D. Kennan, James Payne, of the Township of Anderdon, in the said County of Essex, within the space of one month last past to wit, on the 18th day of July, 1892, at the Town of Amherstburg, in the County aforesaid, did unlawfully deposit in the river at or near said Town, a lot...