A history of public health in New York City, 1625-1866 / John Duffy, Professor of the History of Medicine, Tulane University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duffy, John, 1915-1996, author.

Contributor:

Russell Sage Foundation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health--New York (State)--New York--History.

Public health.

History.

New York (State)--New York.

Public Health--history.

New York City.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

Medical Subjects:

Public Health--history.

New York City.

Genre:

Electronic books.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 619 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits

Place of Publication:

New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 1968.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 591-605).

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Duffy, John, 1915- History of public health in New York City, 1625-1866

ISBN:

9781610441643

1610441648

OCLC:

908637357

Publisher Number:

10.7758/9781610441643

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.