Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Wisconsin for the Year Ending ..., Volumes 2-4Wisconsin State Board of Health, 1878 1902/04- include also reports on the vital statistics of the state. From 1906/08- these rports are compiled by the State Bureau of Vita Statistics. |
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Page 95 - And he showed me a pure river of the water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
Page xxviii - State, at least once a year to report to the State Board of Health their proceedings and such other facts required on blanks and in accordance with instructions received from said State Board. They shall also make special reports whenever required to do so by the State Board of Health.
Page 72 - These periodicals seem to be intended for boys from twelve to sixteen years of age, although they often treat of older persons. Probably many boys outgrow them and come to see the folly and falsehood of them. It is impossible, however, that so much corruption should be afloat and not exert some influence. We say nothing of the great harm which is done to boys of that age, by the nervous excitement of reading harrowing and sensational stories, because the literature before us only participates in...
Page xxvii - Such justice shall thereupon issue a warrant directed to the sheriff or any constable of the county, commanding him to take sufficient aid and, accompanied by two or more of the board of health...
Page xix - ... water — returning to the milk as soon as possible. RULE 10. — The nursing-bottle must be kept perfectly clean ; otherwise the milk will turn sour, and the child will be made ill. After each meal, it should be emptied, rinsed out, taken apart, and the nipple and bottle placed in clean water, or in water to which a little soda has been added.
Page 71 - Whatever good or ill happens to a young man he should be gay. The only ills in question are physical pain or lack of money. These should be borne with gayety and indifference, but should not alter the philosophy of life. As to the rod it is not so easy to generalize. Teachers and parents, in these stories, act faithfully up to Solomon's precept. When a father flogs his son, the true doctrine seems to be that the son should run away and seek a life of adventure. When he does this he has no difficulty...
Page 22 - We infer that as vigorous health and its accompanying high spirits are larger elements of happiness than any other things whatever, the teaching how to maintain them is a teaching that yields in moment to no other whatever. And therefore we assert that such a course of physiology as is needful for the comprehension of its general truths, and their bearings on daily conduct, is an all-essential part of a rational education.
Page xxxix - FRESH AIR; also from trying to give stimulants before the patient can swallow. The first causes suffocation, the second, fatal choking. Do NOT GIVE UP TOO SOON. You are working for life. Any time within two hours you may be on the very threshold of success without there being any sign of it.
Page 22 - ... physicians, nurses or patients contract the disease from being brought in contact with it. It seems, therefore, from the above evidence, that this fever cannot be classed among contagious diseases. If it be true, as already stated, that the poison is furnished from decomposing excrement of typhoid patients, and that it is capable of growth and multiplication if deposited in proper soil, we can readily see how, through the media of air, water and articles of food, this disease may spread not only...
Page 59 - ... or internal vascular membrane covering the brain, resembled a delicate web of coagulated red blood, so tensely were its fine vessels engorged.