Report of a General Plan for the Promotion of Public and Personal Health

Report of a General Plan for the Promotion of Public and Personal Health
Author: Massachusetts Sanitary Commission
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 564
Release: 2018-01-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780483868267

Excerpt from Report of a General Plan for the Promotion of Public and Personal Health: Devised, Prepared and Recommended by the Commissioners Appointed Under a Resolve of the Legislature of Massachusetts, Relating to a Sanitary Survey of the State; Presented April 25, 1850 II. Sanitary movement AT home, Sanitary legislation, 48 Means for curing disease, 55 Sanitary condition of the State, 61; Conclusions, 102. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Expelling the Poor

Expelling the Poor
Author: Hidetaka Hirota
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 019061921X

Expelling the Poor argues that immigration policies in nineteenth-century New York and Massachusetts, driven by cultural prejudice against the Irish and more fundamentally by economic concerns about their poverty, laid the foundations for American immigration control.