Tag: Health Department
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TB Sidelines B’klyn Teach by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Friday, April 20, 2001 Teachers at a Park Slope, Brooklyn, middle school learned yesterday that a colleague who had been out of school for over two weeks was hospitalized with tuberculosis. Health Department spokeswoman Sandra Mullin confirmed that a member of the staff at Middle School 88 has active tuberculosis but said the risk to…
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PUSH TO LIFT TATTOO BAN; City Council votes for body art
February 26, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer New Yorkers may soon be able to get openly what they’ve been getting illegally for 35 years — tattoos. The City Council yesterday passed a law that would lift the official though little-enforced 1962 ban on tattooing. Councilwoman Kathryn Freed (D-Manhattan), who sponsored the…