A history of public health in New York City, 1625-1866 /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Duffy, John, 1915-1996 (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: Russell Sage Foundation
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 1968.
Temas:
Public health > New York (State) > New York > History.
Public Health > history > New York City.
Public Health > history
Santé publique > New York (État) > New York > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
Public health.
New York (N.Y.)
New York (State) > New York.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface by George James, M.D. ; Introduction ; Part I. From Frontier Post to Settled Community ; 1. A Sweet and Wholesome Climate ; 2. The Transition Years, 1664-1720 ; 3. The Comfortable Town of New York, 1720-1776 ; 4. Revolution and Reconstruction ; Part II. From Town to City, 1792-1825 ; 5. Yellow Fever, the Number One Public Health Problem ; 6. The Beginnings of Organized Public Health ; 7. The First Board of Health ; 8. Street Sanitation and Nuisances: The Losing Battle ; 9. Control of the Physical Environment ; 10. Medicine and Hospitals ; 11. Health and Social Welfare
  • Part III. The City Overwhelmed 12. The Administration of Public Health ; 13. The Office of City Inspector ; 14. The Health Office: Chief Quarantine Agency ; 15. The Lucrative Business of Not Cleaning the Streets ; 16. Noisome Substances and Public Nuisances ; 17. The Advent of Sanitary Engineering: Croton Water and the Sewerage System ; 18. Sewerage and Drainage ; 19. Food and Market Regulations ; 20. Epidemic and Endemic Diseases ; 21. Medicine and the Medical Profession ; 22. The Rise of the Hospital ; 23. Immigrants, Tenements, and General Mortality ; 24. The Fight for Reform ; Appendices
  • 1. Mortality Statistics of New York City, 1804-1865 2. Infant Mortality, New York City, 1804-1865 ; 3. Negro Mortality, New York City, 1821-1865 ; 4. Mortality of the Foreign-Born Population, New York City, 1835-1865 ; 5. Mortality of the Irish and German Foreign-Born Population, New York City, 1835-1865 ; 6. Deaths from Specified Causes, Average Annual, New York City, 1804-1865 ; 7. Deaths from Consumption of Negro and Foreign-Born Population, New York City, 1821-1865 ; 8. Consumption Death Rate per 1,000 for Native White, Negro, and Foreign-Born Population, New York City, 1821-1865
  • 9. Deaths from Asiatic Cholera by Nativity Status, New York City, 1832-1854 Bibliography ; Index

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