A History of Public Health in New York City: 1866-1966
Author | : John Duffy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 1968 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015008568332 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Traces the development of the sanitary and health problems of New YorkCity from earliest Dutch times to the culmination of a nineteenth-century reform movement that produced theMetropolitan Health Act of 1866, the forerunner of the present New YorkCity 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."