History of Public Health in New York City, 1625-1866 : Volume 1 / 1625-1866 / 1625-1866 /

Traces the development of the sanitary and health problems of New York City from earliest Dutch times to the culmination of a nineteenth-century reform movement that produced the Metropolitan Health Act of 1866, the forerunner of the present New York City Department of Health. Professor Duffy shows...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Duffy, John, 1915- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Colección:Publications of Russell Sage Foundation.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Public health > New York (State) > New York > History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Preface / by George James, M.D.
  • Introduction
  • From frontier post to settled community
  • A sweet and wholesome climate
  • The transition years, 1664-1720
  • The comfortable town of New York, 1720- 1776
  • Revolution and reconstruction
  • From town to city, 1792-1825
  • Yellow fever, the number one public health problem
  • The beginnings of organized public health
  • The first Board of Health
  • Street sanitation and nuisances : the losing battle
  • Control of the physical environment
  • Medicine and hospitals
  • Health and social welfare
  • The city overwhelmed
  • The administration of public health
  • The Office of City Inspector
  • The Health Office : chief quarantine agency
  • The lucrative business of not cleaning the streets
  • Noisome substances and public nuisances
  • The advent of sanitary engineering : Croton water and the sewerage system
  • Sewerage and drainage
  • Food and market regulations
  • Epidemic and endemic diseases
  • Medicine and the medical profession
  • The rise of the hospital
  • Immigrants, tenements, and general mortality
  • The fight for reform
  • Appendices
  • Mortality statistics of New York City 1804-1865
  • Infant mortality, New York City, 1804-1865
  • Negro mortality, New York City, 1821-1865
  • Mortality of the foreign-born population, New York City, 1835-1865
  • Mortality of the Irish and German foreign-born population, New York City, 1835-1865
  • Deaths from specified causes, average annual, New York City, 1804-1865
  • Deaths from consumption of Negro and foreign-born population, New York City, 1821-1865
  • Consumption death rate per 1,000 for native white, Negro, and foreign-born population, New York City, 1821-1865
  • Deaths from Asiatic cholera by nativity status, New York City, 1832-1854.

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