The Sanitary Inspector, Volume 7Maine State Board of Health, 1893 |
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25 CENTS antitoxin attack Augusta Board of Health boiled breathed burned carbolic acid carelessness carpets cause chicken-pox cholera bacillus clothing consumption contagion contagious disease corrosive sublimate cough danger death-rate deaths desquamation destroyed died diphtheria disinfection dried drinking dust epidemic examination expectoration experience eyes fact floor fumigation germs Greenland health officer hospital Hygiene immunity infection infectious diseases influenza inhabitants J. H. COGAN large number lungs Maine matter Medical membranous croup milk inspection milk of lime months mortality notification occurred paper persons physicians placarded polluted precautions present prevalence protection pulmonary pulverized pupils quarantine result revaccination river rooms Sanitary and Otherwise SANITARY INSPECTOR Sanitary Record scarlet fever school-room sewage sick small-pox solution spitting sputa sputum steam sulphur temperature tetanus tion towns tuberculosis tuberculous typhoid fever vaccination varioloid vessel washed water supply Wiscasset
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Page 31 - That it is acquired by the direct transmission of the tubercle bacillus from the sick to the healthy, usually by means of the dried and pulverized sputum floating as dust in the air. The measures, then, which are suggested for the prevention of the spread of tuberculosis are : 1.
Page 69 - ... to prevent others from catching the disease. Frequently a person suffering from consumption may not only do his usual work without giving the disease to others, but may also get well, if the matter coughed up is properly destroyed. Rooms that have been occupied by consumptives should be thoroughly cleaned, scrubbed, whitewashed, painted or papered before they are again occupied. Carpets, rugs, bedding, etc., from rooms which have been occupied by consumptives, should be disinfected. The Health...
Page 69 - If the matter coughed up be rendered harmless, a consumptive may frequently not only do his usual work without giving the disease to others, but may also thus improve his own condition and increase his chances of getting well.
Page 54 - I have more than once seen a vaccinated infant draw its daily supply of nourishment from a mother suffering from varioloid, and the infant remain as free from any...
Page 69 - When consumptives are away from home, the matter coughed up may be received on cloths, which should be at once burned on returning home. If handkerchiefs are used (worthless cloths which can be burned are far better) they should be boiled in water by themselves before being washed.
Page 20 - Ducor had pieces of wall paper examined and dust from the ceiling and walls was also examined. In both cases the tubercle bacillus was found. The former occupants had been uncleanly in their habits; the sputa had dried on the walls, and the bacillus, as M.
Page 44 - Sanitary truth progresses slowly in those regions, and when the public health officer at length succeeded in establishing the unwelcome fact that milk was one of the surest channels by which infectious diseases were diffused, he had to encounter the objection that the boiling process to which he insisted on its being subjected deprives it of its nutrient properties and also its digestibility. Again, however, he has been able to show that reason was on his side and that milk after boiling is not only...
Page 54 - The more positive evidence of the efficacy of vaccination is to be found in the fact that persons recently vaccinated with effect do not take small-pox when freely exposed to the infection. During my service of twenty-three...
Page 54 - In such instances the unvaccinated children have suffered and often perished, while those who were vaccinated remained perfectly exempt, although living, eating and sleeping in the infected atmosphere for several weeks. But I have yet to see a single unvaccinated child escape the disease under similar conditions of exposure.
Page 44 - BOILED MILK AS AN ALIMENT ABROAD. — The practice of subjecting milk to boiling heat before consumption has of late been widely adopted in European countries, whose public hygiene has hitherto been such as to counsel every means of minimizing the conveyance of infection. British travellers, in Latin countries especially, will be reassured by this salutary innovation, experience having taught them that the milk supplied in hotels and pensions and added to their morning meal of tea...