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Title: The sanitary news : healthy homes and healthy living : a weekly journal of sanitary science
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Sanitation Sanitation
Publisher: Chicago : The Sanitary News
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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the health commissioner doing hisduty? and discusses the insanitary conditionof the Milwaukee and the Menominee rivers in amanner which evidently would make one thinksomething was wrong. At the request of the Chicago health depart-ment, all the railroad companies centering on an accident at the crib. The order was passed. Usually about this time the board of healthof New York city, sends out a corps of physi-cians large enough to visit all the tenementhouses and attend to the families of the poor.The doctors also give instructions about the careof infants to ignorant mothers, and leave themsanitary circulars and medicine. Tl e efforts ofthis summer corps not only kept down the deathrate, but supplied the health authorities with agreat deal of valuable information concerningthe condition of the various tenements. Thisyear there will be no physicians sent out, as therecent reduction in the appropriation for the de-partment renders it impossible. 1ST fLooR pLAi4 ?(Ji>rjriooR P>Lac4
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.. Wi-.-t,.. li.riii/i.•.•;?.«»■. V/.(W —r^fe: MTfV <<(5F §y RESlOEhlcE OF-J.S.AuSTIN.ESq,.LAN SDOWN DEL. CO. PP< CuwverR.Rocers. Architects!30I. W/m-mut ST. .PHillA- PA, PERSONAL.Mr. U. G. Scollay, of the firm of John A.Scollay, of Brooklyn, was married on June 17. Mr. O. L. Wheetock spent a- few days,including the fourth, at the resorts in Wisconsin. Dr. C. V. Tyler, of Bay City, Mich., a mem-ber of the state board of health, is sojourning inCalifornia. Mr. Edward Baumann, of this city, attend-ed the meeting of the American society of en-gineers held at Denver, recently. Dr. Robert Murray, the genial and efficientsurgeon general of the army, will be retiredunder the operation of the law in August next,when he reaches the age of sixty-four years.Dr. Murray has well-earned his retirement, hav-ing been in active medical service in the armyfor forty years. Among the- names of personssuggested as being likely to be appointed hissuccessor, the name of Dr. John S. Billi

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