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Annual Report Of J. L. Meares, M.D. Health Officer Of The City And County Of San Francisco. For The Fiscal Year Ending June 30Th 1888

Annual Report Of J. L. Meares, M.D. Health Officer Of The City And County Of San Francisco. For The Fiscal Year Ending June 30Th 1888

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Medical ReferenceGeneral United States HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354419208
ISBN13: 9789354419201
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Feb 24 2021
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
At the height of the Gilded Age, San Francisco was a thriving port of promise - and a crucible of contagion, overcrowding and hard-learned reform. Annual Report of J. L. Meares, M.D., Health Officer of the City and County of San Francisco for the Fiscal Year Ending 30 June 1888 captures a year when a modern public health system was being fought into existence. In this official municipal health department annual, Dr Meares sets out inspections, hospital work, sanitation and disease control efforts across wards, docklands and tenements, alongside stark urban epidemiology statistics from the 1880s. Every statistic hints at struggle. As a primary source medical document, this historical public health report opens a vivid window onto 19th century San Francisco: outbreaks traced across neighbourhoods, quarantine and vaccination history discussed in plain, practical language, and the pressures of immigration and commerce measured in illness and mortality. It serves as an invaluable reference for medical historians, an epidemiology history sourcebook, and a rich research resource on San Francisco for anyone exploring Gilded Age California health and the development of civic institutions. Casual readers browsing a San Francisco history collection will find human drama in the bureaucratic prose, while collectors will recognise a cornerstone municipal record. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

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