Report of the State Board of Health of the State of New Hampshire. v. 13, 1894/95, Volume 13

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Arthur E. Clarke, 1895
 

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Page 36 - Dr. Demme records the cases of four infants in the Child's Hospital at Berne, the issue of sound parents, without any tuberculous ancestry, that died of intestinal and mesenteric tuberculosis, as the result of feeding on the unsterilized milk of tuberculous cows. These were the only cases in which he was able to exclude the possibility of other causes for the disease, but in these he was satisfied that the milk was alone to blame.
Page 10 - A pure cultivation thus obtained must, when introduced into the body of a healthy animal, produce the disease in question. 4. In the inoculated animal the same micro-organism must again be found (E.
Page 40 - Law tt have succeeded in infecting animals with the milk of tuberculous cows with apparently sound udders. In Bang's work most painstaking microscopical examinations of the udders of six cows giving infectious milk failed to show lesions. The conclusions drawn by Ernst and Peters from their careful work at Mattapan, Mass., are : 1st.
Page 175 - The owner of a valuable herd of cows, finding that a large proportion of them were tuberculous, so large a proportion indeed as strongly to suggest infection by association in the sheds, withdrew his milk from the market and used it, unfortunately without boiling, for fattening his pigs, of which he has a large number and on which he prides himself not less than on his cows. The result has been that the pigs have, almost without exception, been affected with the disease to an extent that has necessitated...
Page 180 - Ducor had pieces of wall paper examined and dust from the ceiling and walls was also examined. In both cases the tubercle bacillus was found. The former occupants had been uncleanly in their habits ; the sputa had dried on the walls, and the bacillus, as M. Vignal has shown, retained its vitality, and was not destroyed by attempted disinfection.
Page 177 - In my experience with tuberculous cows, cases have come to my knowledge in which invalids drinking the milk of such animals have suffered very obviously and have improved after such milk was withheld.
Page viii - The selectmen of each town shall, within 30 days after the passage of this act, appoint a board of health, which shall consist of three persons, selected with reference to their fitness for the office, and they shall be so appointed that the term of office of one member shall expire each year, and the members thereafter appointed shall hold office three years, and until their successors are appointed and qualified. In case a vacancy occurs In the board the selectmen shall appoint a person to fill...
Page 19 - Lydtin quotes the following description of the disease as taken from a Swiss sanitary order: A dry, short, interrupted, hoarse cough, which the sick animals manifest especially in the morning at feeding time, still more after somewhat violent exertion. At first these animals may bo full-blooded and lay on a considerable amount of fat when well fed.
Page 156 - ... division officers should be instructed to pass through the train at every opportunity and report cases where the ventilators have been neglected and the air overheated or foul, to the division superintendent for discipline. The men would then soon learn to •attend to this part of their duty. " Sleeping-car companies should have a code of rules printed and posted in the cars, and their porters and conductors should be made to observe such rules.
Page 10 - These pure cultivations must be carried on through successive generations of the organism. 3. A pure cultivation thus obtained must, when introduced into the...

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