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Board of Aldermen, February 15th, 1836 : the following communication was received from his Honor the Mayor, enclosing a communication from Stephen Allen, Esq., Chairman of the Water Commissioners, and from D.B. Douglass, Esq., Chief Engineer, N.Y. Aqueduct, in relation to the practicability and probable expense of forcing by steam engines a sufficient quantity of water from the North or East River to a reservoir to be erected on Murray Hill, in aid of the present means for extinguishing fires, which was referred to the Committee on Fire and Water.
Lawrence, Cornelius W.Date: [1836]- Books
Dirt sediment testing : a factor in obtaining clean milk / by M.C. Schroeder.
Schroeder, M. C.Date: 1914- Books
What are we doing to prevent tuberculosis among children? / by Louis I. Harris.
Harris, Louis I. (Louis Israel), 1882-Date: [1918]- Books
The functions of a municipal sanatorium : a policy that would control a group of sputum-positive consumptives not now reached by any preventive method / by Charles B. Slade.
Slade, Charles Blount, 1874-1942.Date: [1918]- Books
Classroom ventilation and respiratory diseases among school children / by S. Josephine Baker.
Baker, S. Josephine (Sara Josephine), 1873-1945.Date: [1918]