• • Front Matter
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• • Table of Contents
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• • Preface
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• • Introduction
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• • A Sweet and Wholesome Climate
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• • The Transition Years, 1664 to 1720
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• • The Comfortable Town of New York, 1720 to 1776
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• • Revolution and Reconstruction
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• • [Part II. Introduction]
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• • Yellow Fever, the Number One Public Health Problem
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• • The Beginnings of Organized Public Health
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• • The First Board of Health
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• • Street Sanitation and Nuisances:: the Losing Battle
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• • Control of the Physical Environment
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• • Medicine and Hospitals
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• • Health and Social Welfare
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• • [Part III. Introduction]
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• • The Administration of Public Health
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• • The Office of City Inspector
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• • The Health Office:: Chief Quarantine Agency
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• • The Lucrative Business of Not Cleaning the Streets
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• • Noisome Substances and Public Nuisances
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• • The Advent of Sanitary Engineering:: Croton Water and the Sewerage System
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• • Sewerage and Drainage
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• • Food and Market Regulations
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• • Epidemic and Endemic Diseases
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• • Medicine and the Medical Profession
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• • The Rise of the Hospital
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• • Immigrants, Tenements, and General Mortality
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• • The Fight for Reform
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• • Appendix 1: Mortality Statistics of New York City, 1804–1865
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• • Appendix 2: Infant Mortality, New York City, 1804–1865
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• • Appendix 3: Negro Mortality, New York City, 1821–1865
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• • Appendix 4: Mortality of the Foreign-Born Population, New York City, 1835–1865
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• • Appendix 5: Mortality of the Irish and German Foreign-Born Population, New York City, 1835–1865
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• • Appendix 6: Deaths from Specified Causes, Average Annual, New York City, 1804–1865
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• • Appendix 7: Deaths from Consumption of Negro and Foreign-Born Population, New York City, 1821–1865
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• • Appendix 8: Consumption Death Rate per 1,000 for Native White, Negro, and Foreign-Born Population, New York City, 1821–1865
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• • Appendix 9: Deaths from Asiatic Cholera by Nativity Status, New York City, 1832–1854
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• • Bibliography
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• • Index
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