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1. First report of the Committee on Public Hygiene of the American Medical Association: read at the annual meeting, held in Boston, May 1849 : with an appendix containing sketches of the sanitary condition of the cities of Concord, Portland, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Lowell, Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, Louisville, and Cincinnati

Author(s):: American Medical Association. Committee on Public Hygiene.
Publication:: Philadelphia : T.K. and P.G. Collins, printers, 1849
Subject(s):: Public Health
Sanitation
United States

2. Process of thorough sanitation for cities, towns, and dwellings

Publication:: [Philadelphia : s.n., 18--?]
Subject(s):: Sanitation
Sewage

3. Report of a Joint Special Committee of Select and Common Councils, (appointed on the 7th December, 1848): to whom was referred certain queries contained in a circular letter from the American Medical Association on the subject of public hygiene

Author(s):: Philadelphia (Pa.). Councils. Committee on Public Hygiene.
Publication:: Philadelphia : Crissy & Markley, Printers, 1849
Subject(s):: Public Health
Sanitation
Cholera -- prevention & control
Philadelphia

4. A proposal for altering the eastern front of the city of Philadelphia: with a view to prevent the recurrence of malignant disorders, on a plan conformable to the original design of William Penn

Author(s):: Beck, Paul, 1760-1844
Publication:: Philadelphia : Printed and published by William Fry ..., 1820
Subject(s):: City Planning
Sanitation
Yellow Fever -- prevention & control
Philadelphia

5. Internal health regulations of the town of Boston: each family, on receiving this pamphlet, is requested to stitch it and preserve it with care

Author(s):: Boston (Mass.). Board of Health (1799-1822)
Publication:: [Boston : Board of Health, 1812]
Subject(s):: Public Health
Sanitation
Boston

6. Rules, regulations and orders of the Board of Health of Boston, relative to the police of said town

Author(s):: Boston (Mass.). Board of Health (1799-1822)
Publication:: [Boston] : Published by order of the Board, 1814
Subject(s):: Public Health -- legislation & jurisprudence
Sanitation
Cemeteries -- legislation & jurisprudence
Burial -- legislation & jurisprudence
Quarantine
Boston

7. Hints on the subject of interments within the city of Philadelphia: addressed to the serious consideration of the members of councils, commissioners of the districts, and citizens generally

Author(s):: Atticus.
Publication:: Philadelphia : William Brown, printer, 1838
Subject(s):: Cemeteries
Sanitation
Cities
Philadelphia

8. A report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns: made at the request of Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home department

Author(s):: Chadwick, Edwin, 1800-1890
Publication:: Philadelphia : Printed by C. Sherman, 1845
Subject(s):: Cemeteries
Sanitation
Cities

9. Letters concerning the general health: with notes and considerable additions to the numbers, as they lately appeared in the New-York gazette

Author(s):: Hopkins, Samuel Miles, 1772-1837
Publication:: New-York : Printed by Hopkins & Seymour, for Lang and Turner ..., 1805
Subject(s):: Sanitation
Public Health

10. An exposition of the dangers of interment in cities: illustrated by an account of the funeral rites and customs of the Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, and primitive Christians, by ancient and modern ecclesiastical canons, civil statutes, and municipal regulations, and by chemical and physical principles

Author(s):: Pascalis Ouviere, Felix, 1762-1833
Publication:: New-York : W. B. Gilley, 1823
Subject(s):: Funeral Rites
Cemeteries
Sanitation
Cities