Contents
Preface by George James, M.D.
Introduction
Part I. From Frontier Post to Settled Community
1. A Sweet and Wholesome Climate
2. The Transition Years, 1664-1720
3. The Comfortable Town of New York, 1720-1776
4. Revolution and Reconstruction
Part II. From Town to City, 1792-1825
5. Yellow Fever, the Number One Public Health Problem
6. The Beginnings of Organized Public Health
7. The First Board of Health
8. Street Sanitation and Nuisances: The Losing Battle
9. Control of the Physical Environment
10. Medicine and Hospitals
11. Health and Social Welfare
Part III. The City Overwhelmed
12. The Administration of Public Health
13. The Office of City Inspector
14. The Health Office: Chief Quarantine Agency
15. The Lucrative Business of Not Cleaning the Streets
16. Noisome Substances and Public Nuisances
17. The Advent of Sanitary Engineering: Croton Water and the Sewerage System
18. Sewerage and Drainage
19. Food and Market Regulations
20. Epidemic and Endemic Diseases
21. Medicine and the Medical Profession
22. The Rise of the Hospital
23. Immigrants, Tenements, and General Mortality
24. The Fight for Reform
Appendices
1. Mortality Statistics of New York City, 1804-1865
2. Infant Mortality, New York City, 1804-1865
3. Negro Mortality, New York City, 1821-1865
4. Mortality of the Foreign-Born Population, New York City, 1835-1865
5. Mortality of the Irish and German Foreign-Born Population, New York City, 1835-1865
6. Deaths from Specified Causes, Average Annual, New York City, 1804-1865
7. Deaths from Consumption of Negro and Foreign-Born Population, New York City, 1821-1865
8. Consumption Death Rate per 1,000 for Native White, Negro, and Foreign-Born Population, New York City, 1821-1865
9. Deaths from Asiatic Cholera by Nativity Status, New York City, 1832-1854
Bibliography
Index