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Title: Hygienic and medical reports (electronic resource)
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Parker, Joseph Benson, 1841-1915 United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Sanitary and medical reports
Subjects: United States. Navy Naval hygiene Naval Medicine
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Wellcome Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellcome Library

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y inconvenience from thissource at present. But I do not consider the plan a safe one. Sewer-gases prob- 908 NAVAL HOSPITAL, CHELSEA, MASS. ably cause a large proportion of our city iiiortality; and theyenter the houses through just such arrangements, only theplumbing is not commonly so good. But even royal plumbingis not good enough to protect us from these gases, as we learnfrom the circumstances of the last illness of the late PrinceAlbert. There are more than 30,000 houses in the city of Bos-ton—30,000 water-closets—30,000 sets of these iron pipes rust-ing out. Even if iron pii)e lasts a hundred years, there mustbe three hundred of these drains giving out each year—threehundred foci for typhoid-fever epidemics—nearly one centre oftyphoid infection for each day of the year. It is not quitepleasant to have these conveniences always at the far end of along garden; but surely they might be near the external wall ofthe house, and the pipes might be kept out of the cellar floor.
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UNITED STATES NAVAL STATION, KITTERY, ME. Eeport by C. J. CLEBORXE, M. D. MUDICAL INSPECTOR V. S. NAVY. The Uuited States uavy-yard at Kittery is located upon twoislands, situated on tlie nortlieast side of the Piscataqua, nearlyoj^posite the city of Portsmouth, H., in latitude 43^ 05,longitude 70^ 44 30, west from Greenwich. The Piscataqua Eiver was discovered in 1603, by MartinPring, a captain in the service of the Bristol Oomx)any, a soci-ety of merchant adventurers, Avho fitted out two small vessels,the Speedwell and the Discoverer, for the purpose of exploringthe northern portion of Virginia. He was followed in the sum-mer of 1605, by Samuel de Champlain, and in 1614, by Capt.John Smith, who discovered the Isles of Shoals, and madethe first chart of the coast known as Kew England. On the10th August, 1622, the council established for the planting,ruling, ordering, and governing of ^ew England in America,granted to Sir Fernando Gorges,* and Capt. John Mason, amercliant of London, a

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