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Traces the development of the sanitary and health problems of New York City from earliest Dutch times to the culmination of a nineteenth-century reform movement that produced the Metropolitan Health Act of 1866, the forerunner of the present New York City 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.;Preface / by George James, M.D. -- Introduction -- From frontier post to settled community -- A sweet and wholesome climate -- The transition years, 1664-1720 -- The comfortable town of New York, 1720- 1776 -- Revolution and reconstruction -- From town to city, 1792-1825 -- Yellow fever, the number one public health problem -- The beginnings of organized public health -- The first Board of Health -- Street sanitation and nuisances : the losing battle -- Control of the physical environment -- Medicine and hospitals -- Health and social wel

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Author

Santlofer, Joy; Nestle, Marion

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393076394

Category

history

Subjects

Medical, Science, Economics

Rating

3.58 / 5 (32 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14