Annual report of the State Board of Health of Florida. 1894

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Drew Press, 1894

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الصفحة 88 - Health, and perform such other duties as may from time to time be required of them by the State Board of Health pertaining to the health of the people.
الصفحة 28 - ... be in the exact proportion here mentioned. In many important instances in America it has been greater, in others, perhaps, less. But it is intended to...
الصفحة 25 - Statistics may be defined as the science or art of applying facts to the elucidation and demonstration of truth. It is the basis of social and political economy, and the only sure ground on which the truth or falsehood of theories can be brought to the test. Mere columns of figures may or may not be statistics. They form, in any case, a small part only of the illustration. Combination and deduction are required to give them full effect.
الصفحة 25 - This is an oft-repeated remark, but in our judgment may be easily answered. Statistics may be defined as the science or art of applying facts to the elucidation and demonstration of truth. It is the basis of social and political economy, and the only sure ground on which the truth or falsehood of theories can be brought to the test. Mere columns of figures may or may not be statistics. They form, in any case, a small part only of the illustration. Combination and deduction are required...
الصفحة 26 - We use figures as the representatives of facts, not fiction, — of truth, not falsehood, — and find them very convenient for that purpose. We find it very difficult to prove or disprove many propositions without them. We are aware that some persons have a great antipathy to facts and statistics; but in this "matter-of-fact age " they are required; and they are far more useful and important than the fiction and theory, the assumption and assertion, that have occupied so much of public attention....
الصفحة 25 - ... small part only of the illustration. Combination and deduction are required to give them full effect. We belong to that class of statists, who have no particular fondness for figures, though we have a great fondness for facts. We use figures as the representatives of facts, not fiction, — of truth, not falsehood, — and find them very convenient for that purpose. We find it very difficult to prove or disprove many propositions without them. We are aware that some persons have a great antipathy...
الصفحة 11 - On the 28th a third man was sent to the hospital with slight fever. 0>i the 29th a fourth man was sick and placed in the hospital on the 31st. On this day one sailor admitted to the hospital, as reported, on the 28th, was discharged, leaving two of the vessel's crew still in the hospital. On August 1st both cases had developed into Yellow Fever. The "Leonora...
الصفحة 1 - New Haven, Conn., November 3d, 1885. ) Dear Doctor: The law requires that the Connecticut State Board of Health shall make an annual report to the Governor " of the sanitary condition of the State." This report is to be presented on or before the 1st of December. The only reliable sources of information are the general practitioners, who are engaged in their arduous labors in the various towns of the State. They alone are capable of reporting the sanitary...
الصفحة 26 - ... laws of reasoning which have commended themselves to profound thinkers, and which are accepted as conclusive. Where there are limitations, or exceptions, these have been defined with a clearness and precision which gives definiteness to conclusions.

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