Report, Volume 121881/82-1882/83, 1936/38- include also the registration reports for 1881-1882, 1936/37- |
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Page vii
... probably greater than that made during the entire preceding generation . The results are to be seen in every town in the state - a better knowledge among the people of the means necessary to protect and prolong life , the introduction ...
... probably greater than that made during the entire preceding generation . The results are to be seen in every town in the state - a better knowledge among the people of the means necessary to protect and prolong life , the introduction ...
Page xi
... probably continue to cause temporary excitement in the community and will , of course , demand prompt activity on the part of health officials ; but an effort , calm , steady , and continuous , based upon exact knowledge , with simple ...
... probably continue to cause temporary excitement in the community and will , of course , demand prompt activity on the part of health officials ; but an effort , calm , steady , and continuous , based upon exact knowledge , with simple ...
Page 2
... probably , to the lateness of its introduction , as the bill came directly from the Judiciary Committee , and was supported by many of the most influential legislators . The present system of maintaining the pauper insane at our county ...
... probably , to the lateness of its introduction , as the bill came directly from the Judiciary Committee , and was supported by many of the most influential legislators . The present system of maintaining the pauper insane at our county ...
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... probably have done more effectual service with the hose than with the pails of water ; the watchman received his orders from Demeritt ; commissioners never looked at the watchman's dial ; Demeritt had full control of the watchman ...
... probably have done more effectual service with the hose than with the pails of water ; the watchman received his orders from Demeritt ; commissioners never looked at the watchman's dial ; Demeritt had full control of the watchman ...
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... probably , ignited with a match in her possession . It was shown that matches were fur- nished those inmates who smoked . She smoked occasion- ally , therefore it would not be difficult for her to obtain matches herself or from other ...
... probably , ignited with a match in her possession . It was shown that matches were fur- nished those inmates who smoked . She smoked occasion- ally , therefore it would not be difficult for her to obtain matches herself or from other ...
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adulteration almshouse amount animals asylum authorities average bacilli board of health building burner carbolic acid cattle cause cents per pound cereals chicory Cholera infantum coffee bean Coffee Compound coffee substitute contagious diseases contains Coös cows croup danger dealers Death-rates decedents Demeritt diphtheria disinfection drink Driscoll epidemic Females fire fire-test fomites furnished gasolene germs give ground coffee half cents Hampshire health officers heat herds Hillsborough hundred inclusive inmates insane inspection Java Coffee Laconia lamp Males manufactured measles Medical membranous croup milk months naphtha Nativity number of deaths October 14 patients peas Percentages of deaths physician pneumonia prevent public health quarantine roasted rules and regulations samples sanitary scarlet-fever sick small-pox Sources of infection spread Strafford Strafford County supply TABLE theria tion total mortality trachea tuberculin tuberculosis tuberculous typhoid fever ventilation watchman water-supply
Popular passages
Page 269 - As a migrant, his world will be from the Atlantic to the Pacific— from the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande. It will be his world, however, only in that the only piece of property that he will own will be his grave.
Page 20 - ... by the state board of health ; and it shall be the duty of such...
Page 58 - ... material containing them. This salt is, nevertheless, a very valuable antiseptic, and its low price makes it one of the most available agents for the arrest of putrefactive decomposition in privy vaults, etc.
Page 271 - It has been lately observed, that " if the various states of Europe kept and published annually an exact account -of their population, noting carefully in a second column the exact age .at which the children die ; this second column would show the relative merit of the governments and the comparative happiness of their subjects. A simple arithmetical statement would then perhaps be more conclusive than all the arguments which could be produced.
Page 59 - A large number of the proprietary " disinfectants," so called, which are in the market, are simply deodorizers or antiseptics, of greater or less value, and are entirely untrustworthy for disinfecting purposes. Antiseptics are to be used at all times when it is impracticable to remove filth from the vicinity of human habitations, but they are a poor substitute for cleanliness.
Page 58 - The object of disinfection is to prevent the extension of infectious diseases by destroying the specific infectious material which gives rise to them. This is accomplished by the use of disinfectants. There can be no partial disinfection of such material ; either its infecting power is destroyed or it is not. In the latter case there is a failure to disinfect.
Page 60 - Quicklime is also a valuable disinfectant and may be substituted for the more expensive chloride of lime for disinfection of typhoid and cholera excreta, etc. For this purpose freshly prepared "milk of lime" should be used, containing about 1 part by weight of hydrate of lime to 8 of water.
Page 88 - And the space of time here referred to as comprehending the sickly season, shall be understood to extend from the first day of May to the first day of November.
Page 211 - An act for the establishment of a bureau of . animal industry, to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle, and to provide means for the suppression and extirpation of pleuro-pneumonia and other contagious diseases among domestic animals," and to cooperate with the authorities of the United States in the enforcement of the provisions of such act.
Page 131 - In this resolution the question of isolation of the patient is not mentioned. Its purpose is to secure to the local health authorities 1 The Doctor of Hygiene. and to the state board of health information of the location of each case of this most dangerous disease, with the view of placing in the hands of the patient reliable information how to avoid giving the disease to others, and in...