It is hand-painted in the ceiling, carved in wooden doors and fashioned in the cast-iron latticework of the window guards.

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Gabriel Taussig, the chief of the city's administrative law division, pointed to two Board of Health decisions that were challenged in courts and remain on the books today: window guards on buildings with children in them and fluoridation of the city's water supply.

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