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A History of Public Health in New York City, 1625-1866

By John Duffy

Book information

Publisher
Russell Sage Foundation
Year
1968
ISBN
0871542129, 9780871542120
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
41 MB (43363054 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
639\636
Time added
2023-12-25 09:40:02

Description

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 the city's transition from a clean and healthy colonial settlement to an epidemic-ridden community in the eighteenth century, as the city outgrew its health and sanitation facilities. He describes the slow growth of a demand for adequate health laws in the mid-nineteenth century, leading to the establishment of the first permanent health agency in 1866.

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