Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Maine, Volume 5The Board, 1890 |
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Page 211 - MD, Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore.
Page 169 - ... that the virus is present, whether there is disease of the udder or not; 3, that there is no ground for the assertion that there must be a lesion of the udder...
Page 272 - In summer, when ready for delivery, the top should be placed on the can and a cloth wet in cold water should be spread over the can, or refrigerator cans may be used. At no season should the milk be frozen; but no buyer should receive milk which has a temperature higher than 65° F.
Page 272 - F. Milk should not be allowed to stand uncovered, even for a short time, in sleeping or living rooms. In many of the better houses in the country and villages, and occasionally in the cities, the drain from the refrigerator leads into a cesspool or kitchen drain.
Page 7 - In the months of March and October, annually, each and every person who is employed in a paper mill, shall be examined by the local board of health as to whether he or she is successfully and sufficiently protected by vaccination and the local board of health shall in all cases be the judges of the sufficiency of the protection by vaccination.
Page 213 - In shielding a child against the infection during the first few years of his life there is a double gain ; every year of escape from scarlet fever renders him less and less susceptible, until finally he becomes almost insusceptible ; and secondly, even if he should ultimately take the disease, every year that the attack is deferred reduces the danger to life which it brings. In other words, attacks of scarlet fever become both less severe and less frequent with every year of age after the fifth....
Page 149 - ... pipes will be overheated. The warm-air register in the room should not be placed directly in the floor, but in the baseboard. If placed in the floor, it soon receives a large amount of dust and other refuse. With a hot-air furnace properly selected and arranged, the amount of warm, fresh air entering the room is sufficient. But before the fresh, warm air can enter, the air already present must find an exit. The following principles may guide us in economically ventilating a room heated with a...
Page 143 - A little saving in the color of the carpet is poor economy when it is secured at the cost of health. Especially should the room occupied by the women and children, who are indoors much of the time, be well supplied with light. If there is to be a long, dark hall or passage-way in the house, let it be on the side upon which the least sunlight falls, and place the living-rooms on the other side. It is, unfortunately, the fashion to make bed-rooms small in order to have a large sitting-room. Too often...
Page 157 - ... closet, a vault may be dug beneath the seat, and. made water-tight with brick and cement. Into this should be thrown each day a sufficient quantity of this dry earth, and the vault should be thoroughly cleaned at least once a month. The ordinary privy-vault with porous walls is an abomination. It has caused more deaths in this country than war and famine have produced. The liquid poisons from it filter into wells, while its gaseous exhalations float through the air. People breathe and drink their...
Page 142 - In order for them to dry thoroughly they must be pervious to air ; and walls built as recommended above will allow the air to pass through them freely. Plastering does not prevent the air from passing through the walls, but papering does. However, as papering is the most economical way in which walls can be decorated, it will long continue in use. Wall papers containing arsenical colors have been, and are still to some extent, used. Rooms decorated with such papers are not suitable for living apartments.