The Sanitary Inspector, Volume 5Maine State Board of Health, 1892 |
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Page 156 - Treasury to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States...
Page 9 - Never quiet it by candy or by cake; they are the common causes of diarrhoea and of other troubles. RULE 4.— Give the child plenty of fresh air. In the cool of the morning and evening, send it out to the shady sides of broad streets, to the public squares, or to the Park. Make frequent excursions on the rivers. Whenever it seems to suffer from the heat, let it drink freely of ice-water. Keep it out of the room in which washing or cooking is going on. It is excessive heat that destroys the lives...
Page 11 - Take one quart of good flour; tie it up in a pudding-bag so tightly as to make a firm, solid mass; put it into a pot of boiling water early in the morning, and let it boil until bed-time. Then take it out and let it dry. In the morning peel off...
Page 9 - Sago, arrow-root, potatoes, corn-flour, crackers, bread, every patent food, and every article of diet containing starch, cannot and must not be depended on as food for very young infants. Creeping or walking children must not be allowed to pick up unwholesome food. RULE 8.
Page 157 - F.), and unmixed with air. (3) Solution of carbolic acid of a 2 per cent strength. This method (No. 3) may be applied only to leather goods, such as trunks, satchels, boots, shoes; to rubber goods, etc., the articles to be saturated with the solution.
Page 156 - ... or contagious disease, shall enter any port of the United States, or pass the boundary line between the United States and any foreign country, contrary to the quarantine laws of any one of said United States, into or through the jurisdiction of which said vessel or vehicle may pass, or to which it is destined, or except in the manner and subject to the regulations to be prescribed as hereinafter provided.