Massachusetts State Board of Health

In the 1880s, Richards worked as water analyst for the Massachusetts State Board of Health while teaching at MIT. She conducted a two-year survey analyzing over 100,000 samples of drinking water in Massachusetts. From this study, she produced the first state water quality standards in the United States, which in turn led to the first modern sewage treatment plants. Her later studies in food quality led to state food and dmg standards. 

Richard Hartshorn Gould graduated as a sanitary engineer from Massaehusetts Institute of Technology MIT in 1911. He then joined the Massachusetts State Board of Health as an inspector, and moved as sanitary engineer to Emschergenossenschaft, Essen,... 

Morris Knowles was apprenticed at the Essex Water Company, Lawrence MA. He was assistant engineer from 1893 for the East Jersey Water Co., and for the Massachusetts State Board of Health until 1897, from when he was water supply investigator for Boston MA, leading to the formation of Wachusett Reservoir and Aqueduct to supply the city with water. He also was member of the Water Board of Lawrence MA, and resident engineer of the Filtration Commission,... 

Hazen A (1892) Some physical properties of sands and gravels, with special reference to their use in filtration. 24th Annual Rep., Massachusetts State Board of Health, Pub. Doc. No. 34, 539-556... 

Sources Massachusetts State Board of Health (1900), pp. 490-493 Massachusetts State Board of Health (1899). 

In 1900, the Massachusetts State Board of Health launched an investigation into the amount of lead contained in household tap water in twenty-two municipalities across the state. Health officials took several samples of water from household faucets in these cities after the water had passed through lead service pipes, measured the lead content of these samples, and reported their findings in the annual report of the Board of Health. Officials also reported data on the chemical composition and quaHties of the local water supply, including how hard the water was, and the amount of free-C02 (carbonic acid) it contained. ... 

Abortifadent equivalent and modem EPA standard. Sources See notes to table 3.2. for derivation of abortifadent equivalent Hall (1905). For lead levels in Massachusetts tap water, see Massachusetts State Board of Health (1900), pp. 490-493. Note The y-axis has a logarithmic scale. 

Water lead and infant mortality in Massachusetts, 1900. Sources Massachusetts State Board of Health (1900), pp. 490-493 Troesken (2006b) Massachusetts State Board of Health (1899). See also appendix A for data on births. Note The on the trend line is 0.176, with an estimated slope of 10.618, which is significant at the 0.033 level (one-tailed test). 

Sources Allen (1888) Brown (1889) Greene (1889) HiUs (1894) Ingleson (1934), pp. 55-68 Lead in Lancashire Water, Lancet, July 11, 1908, p. 120 Local Government Board (1888-1889, 1893-1894) Massachusetts State Board of Health (1899, 1900) Quam and Klein (1936) Thomson et al. (1989) The Water-Supply and Lead Pipes, Lancet, April 24, 1909, p. 1212. For New York City, see the prologue. For Aberdeen, see Smith (1852). 

The empirical strategies just described were estimated using data originally compiled by the Massachusetts State Board of Health. Massachusetts collected and reported data on age-specific death rates and stillbirth rates for every town in the state with a population greater than five thousand persons. The Massachusetts mortality data are well known and have been widely used by historical demographers, largely because of their reliability, accuracy, and unusual detail. The data used here come from the 1900 Annual Report of the Massachusetts State Board of Health. In addition to the data on health outcomes, data about water systems and the use of lead water lines across municipalities were also needed. These data come from The Manual of American Waterworks, a volume compiled and edited by Moses N. Baker, a prominent public health expert... 

This paragraph is based on Baker (1897), p. 51 Weston (1920) The Sanitarian, July-December, 1899, pp. 230-232 and Massachusetts State Board of Health (1900), pp. xxxii-xxxiii. 

On changes in the lead levels in the Milford-Hopedale water supply, see Weston (1920). On the standards adopted by the Massachusetts State Board of Health as to a safe amount of lead in the water, see Committee on Service Pipes (1917), pp. 355-357. 

See Massachusetts State Board of Health (1871). See also Massachusetts State Board of Health (1878). 

Massachusetts State Board of Health. 1895. Twenty-Sixth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts. Public Document No. 34. Boston Wright C Potter. 

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