Bulletin of the North Carolina State Board of Health, Volumes 19-21Secretary of the Board, 1904 |
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Page 34 - the contagion of fever." And among the causes of this they found one to be "the want of active exercise which nature points out as essential in childhood and youth to Invigorate the system and to fit our Species for the employments and the duties of manhood.
Page 34 - from it in the evening to all those who work in the cotton mills: but we deem this indulgence essential to the present health and future capacity for labor for those who are under the age of fourteen : for the active recreations of childhood and youth are necessary to the
Page 62 - camps located in the Northern as well as in those located in the Southern States. (6) Typhoid fever is so widely distributed in this country that one or more cases are likely to appear in any regiment within eight weeks after assembly. (") Typhoid fever usually appears in military expeditions within eight weeks after assembly.
Page 34 - condition of the cotton mills of Manchester. They said : "It appears that the children and others who work in large cotton factories are peculiarly disposed to be affected by the contagion of fever.
Page 109 - go out. All the clothing of the sick person should be disinfected before it is worn again, not neglecting that the patient had on when taken sick. After recovery or death all articles which have come in contact with the patient, together with the room and all its contents, should be
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Page 152 - On boiling, the change taking place is simply due to the coagulation of the globulin, or proteid molecule, which splits away from the inorganic molecule and thus renders it, as to the iron and fluorin, unabsorbable, and. as to the phosphatic molecule, unassimilable. This is the change that is so vital, and this
Page 34 - which had been accompanied by frightful mortality among the children. Dr. Percival and his associates were unable to ascertain how the fever originated, but they were unanimous in their opinion that it had been "supported, diffused and aggravated by the injury done to young persons through confinement and too long continued labor, to which
Page 88 - The authorities of any city or town or the board of county commissioners of any county, may make such regulations and provisions for the vaccination of its inhabitants under the direction of the local or county board of health or a committee chosen for the purpose, and impose such penalties, as they may deem necessary to protect the public health.
Page 64 - so closely followed by typhoid fever that we must regard the former as having occurred within the period of incubation of the latter. (53) More than ninety per cent of the men who developed typhoid fever had no preceding intestinal disorder. (54) The deaths from typhoid fever were