Biennial report of the Department of Public Health, State of Tennessee for the fiscal years ... 1880-84Department of Public Health, 1885 |
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adopted April attendance authorities average BERRIEN LINDSLEY Board of Health building C. C. FITE cause cells Chairman Chattanooga cholera Clarksville Colored Conference County Court County Health Officer danger Davidson county death rate December diphtheria disease disinfection district duty E. W. Cole epidemic Executive Committee feet Female Male floor G. B. Thornton Gibson county hospital hygiene infected inspection J. D. Plunket jail January July June Knoxville Louisiana March Marine Hospital Service Medical meeting Memphis Mississippi mortality Nashville National Board observations October Order Orleans ozone P. D. Sims persons physician population present President prison privy public health pupils quarantine respectfully Safford sanitary condition Secretary State Board sewer Shelby county sick small-pox T. A. Atchison temperature TENN Tennessee State Board test-paper tion town typhoid fever vaccination vaults ventilation visited vital statistics Ward White yellow fever
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Page 24 - State be requested to forward a copy of these resolutions to each of our senators and representatives in Congress, at the commencement of the next session thereof.
Page 555 - 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 294 - State, for that purpose, with proper indexes thereto. The births, marriages, and deaths shall be numbered and recorded in the order in which they are received by the clerk, and the record of marriages shall be indexed, using both the name of the bridegroom and bride. The record of births shall state, in separate columns, the date of the birth, the name of the child (if it have any), the sex...
Page 556 - The injurious consequences which are likely to result from such misapprehension and misuse of the word disinfectant will be appreciated when it is known that recent researches have demonstrated that many of the agents which have been found useful as deodorizers, or as antiseptics, are entirely without value for the destruction of disease germs. This is true, for example, as regards the sulphate of iron or copperas, a salt which has been extensively used with the idea that it is a valuable disinfectant....
Page 560 - ... the mercury precipitated by contact with copper, lead or tin. A wooden tub or earthen crock is a suitable receptacle for such solutions. Clothing may also be disinfected by immersion for two hours in a solution made by diluting Standard Solution No.
Page 560 - ... make a suitable solution for the disinfection of clothing. The articles to be disinfected must be thoroughly soaked with the disinfecting solution and left in it for at least two hours, after which they may be wrung out and sent to the wash.
Page 153 - We further recommend, in case of those foreign ports which have no consular agents of this country or no telegraphic communication with this country, and which are liable to transmit pestilence through commercial intercourse, that one or more medical officers be chosen to visit such ports as often as may be deemed necessary by the central health authority in this country, so as to give trustworthy information of the health and sanitary condition of those places.
Page 152 - There are three essential factors to the prevalence of cholera in this country as an epidemic— (1) the importation of the disease by means of ships more or less directly from its only place of origin in India ; (2) local unsanitary conditions favorable to the reception and development of the disease ; (3) persons sick with the disease in some of its stages, or things infected by such sick persons, to carry it from place to place. These three factors naturally suggest the methods of combating the...
Page 283 - It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to receive the returns made in pursuance of the third section of this act, and he shall cause the same for each year to be bound together, in one or more volumes, at the expense of the State, and make indexes thereto; and with such assistance as may be...
Page 559 - No. 3 may be used. In diseases like smallpox and scarlet fever, in which the infectious agent is given off from the entire surface of the body, occasional ablutions with Labarraque's Solution, diluted with twenty parts of water, will be more suitable than the stronger solution above recommended. In all infectious diseases the surface of the body of the dead should be thoroughly washed with one of the standard solutions above recommended, and then enveloped in a sheet saturated with the same.