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Ann Arbor April attending August average per cent better Board of Health bronchitis cause cent of reports cent of weekly cerebro-spinal child cholera infantum cholera morbus circular consumption contagion convention croup daily range danger deaths Detroit diarrhea diphtheria disinfection Dysentery epidemic Erysipelas Escanaba Exhibit feet girls Grand Haven Gratiot county health officer hospital hygiene infected Influenza Intermittent fever Ionia July June Kalamazoo Lansing less malarial Mallory Lake March measles meteorological Michigan months neuralgia observations occurred outbreak ozone patient persons physician pneumonia Port Huron prevalence proposition public health pupils question Reed City remittent fever Reports Stating Presence respectfully rheumatism river sanitary scarlet fever Sept sewer small-pox stations temperature theria Thornville tion tonsilitis Total number township typho-malarial fever typhoid fever vaccination Vapor varioloid ventilation village weekly reports weeks whooping-cough
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Page 65 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault.
Page 166 - tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy ; for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is full of blessings.
Page 24 - The smallpox, so fatal and so general amongst us, is here entirely harmless by the invention of ingrafting, which is the term they give it. There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the smallpox ; they make parties for this purpose, and when they are met (commonly fifteen or sixteen together), the old woman comes...
Page 359 - Till the war drum throbs no longer and the battle flags are furled In the Parliament of man, the federation of the world.
Page 24 - Every year thousands undergo this operation; and the French ambassador says, pleasantly, that they take the small-pox here by way of diversion, as they take the waters in other countries.
Page 164 - Tennyson is a grand specimen of a man, with a magnificent head set on his shoulders like the capital of a mighty pillar. His hair is long and wavy and covers a massive head. He wears a beard and moustache, which one begrudges as hiding so much of that firm, powerful, but finely chiselled mouth.
Page 52 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Page vii - That no papers shall be published in the Annual Report of this Board except such as are ordered or approved for purposes of such publication by a majority of the members of the Board; and that any such paper shall be published over the signature of the writer, who shall be entitled to the credit of its production, as well as responsible for the statements of facts and opinions expressed therein.
Page 166 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her ; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy ; for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us or disturb...
Page 264 - ... facts so far as the same shall come to his knowledge, respecting sources of danger of any such diseased person or infected article being brought into or taken out of the township, city, or village of which he is the health officer.