Pollution of New York harbor as a menace to health by the dissemination of intestinal diseases through the agency of the common house flyMerchants' Association of New York, 1907 - 22 Seiten |
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22nd Street ALBERT VANDER VEER amount of excreta Avenue bacteria bad condition Brooklyn Bridge Committee on Pollution common house fly conditions very bad covered with flies CULYER DANIEL DANIEL D deaths from intestinal deposits of excreta deposits on shore dirty docks dumping pier East River EDWARD HATCH excreta and flies exposed at low exposed excreta fecal deposits fecal matter filled with sewage flies very numerous Gravesend Bay Greater New York harbor Harlem River high water horse droppings horse manure human excreta infected intestinal diseases JACKSON JOHN Y large amount low tide lumber piles maggots MERCHANTS mosquitoes Newtown Creek North numerous deposits Odor Pi Pi prevalence of flies refuse rubbish sanitary conditions sewage being washed sewage in water Sewage matter sewer empties sewer exposed sewer outlets shore at low summer swarms of flies Toilet filthy typhoid fever unsanitary water filled water filthy water front water mark Wooden bulkheads yard York City
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Seite 19 - August 3; also, that the deaths from intestinal diseases rose above the normal at the same time at which flies became prevalent, culmi"nated at the same high point, and fell off with slight lag at the time of the gradual falling off of the prevalence of the insects.
Seite 21 - He had been walking over human excreta on the water front, and was on his way to the nearest milk-pitcher.
Seite 19 - City causes annually about 650 deaths from typhoid fever and about 7000 deaths yearly from other intestinal diseases. The statistics in practically all American cities — and in many foreign cities, too, for that matter — show a marked rise in the number of deaths from typhoid fever and intestinal diseases during the fly season. In cities where...
Seite 19 - Association in New York, published in December, 1907. the results of numerous observations upon the relation of flies to intestinal diseases are published, and the relation of deaths from intestinal diseases in New York City to the activity and prevalence of the common house fly is shown not only by repeated observations but also by an interesting plotting of the curve of abundance of flies in comparison with the plotted curve of abundance of deaths from intestinal diseases, indicating that the greatest...
Seite 17 - The total time required for a single generation is about ten days and the number'of generations are said by some authorities to be as high as twelve during the summer. In New York City the actual number of generations is probably about one-half the number given, judging from the time of first appearance to the time of the culminating point or points of greatest prevalent...
Seite 19 - We are spending considerable time and money in a war on mosquitoes. The cases of malaria reported in Greater New York in 1905 were but 359 and the deaths only 52. Much more to be feared is the common house fly.
Seite 5 - To the Board of Directors of the Merchants' Association of New York GENTLEMEN...
Seite 21 - ... in fecal matter almost exclusively and at the rate of thousands for each individual fly, the consequent facility for the spread of diseasebreeding germs is apparent. To prove by experiment, captured flies were thoroughly cleaned and then allowed to walk over infected material. They were again examined and the material which they carried analyzed. In one instance, a fly captured on South Street...
Seite 19 - If now we count back two months from the fall rise in typhoid deaths to the time when the disease...
Seite 8 - Jackson ('09), in which he showed that the sewage is not carried away by the tides and that in many points sewer out-falls have not been carried below the low water mark, in consequence of which the solid matters from the sewers were exposed on the shores.