Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of New Hampshire for the Fiscal Year Ending...Parson B. Cogswell, Public Printer, (etc), 1910 |
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adulterated Albuminoid Nitrates Ammonia Nitrogen Evapo’n Appearance Odor Appearance Residue Appearance Sediment Aqueduct Company Board of Health brand Brook cent Center Harbor cesspool Chlorine cocoa Coli present Color Concord Date of collection Dec.vg disease drain earthy earthy Evapo’n Odor Evapo’n Residue Examination of Water Extract feet deep ferrug filter Fixed floc foul Free gallons galvanized iron Hampshire Hardness House inches iron mains July July 13 July 20 June June 21 label laboratory Laconia Lake latter Lead Lyndeborough Manchester miles Misbranded Nitrites Nitrogen as Evapo’n Number opal pollution pond private supplies public supply pumped Renovated butter reservoir Residue on Ammonia salt samples sanitary Sediment Sept service pipes sewage slight Earthy slight None 0.00 slight Sl slight Slight slight Veg soil tank Total town trench tuberculosis Turbidity typhoid fever V.slight village Water Company Water from Spring water supply
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Page 170 - food," as used herein, shall include all articles used for food, drink, confectionery, or condiment by man or other animals, whether simple, mixed, or compound.
Page 164 - In times of epidemics of small-pox, yellow fever, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhus fever, cholera, the State Board of Health shall have sanitary jurisdiction in all cities and towns not having regularly organized local boards of health, and are hereby empowered to make all such regulations as they may deem necessary to protect the public health, and to enforce...
Page 169 - ... and defining the duties of the ' state board of health in relation to foods and drugs, their inspection, purity...
Page 263 - of the proprietors, moreover, refused to drink at the spring ".where they were accustomed to drink. Had this soakage been " sewage instead of petroleum, who can doubt that the result " might have been wholesale water-poisoning and an outbreak "of typhoid fever.
Page 157 - ... quality was taken for granted. But the wife of the owner was taken sick with typhoid fever during the epidemic, and her dejecta passed without disinfection through the water closet, and into a drain pipe which ran within three or four feet of the well. The joints of the drain pipe were not tight, and the well water, which had probably been for some time grossly contaminated, finally became infected. As a result about fifty cases of typhoid fever and five deaths were traced to people who used...
Page 249 - The demonstration of the presence of tubercle bacilli in the sputum proves conclusively the existence of tuberculosis, but the absence of tubercle bacilli or the failure to find them microscopically does not exclude the existence of the disease.
Page 288 - Whether such bacteria can pass through the pores of a compact, unbroken soil from a cesspool to a well near it is a matter not fully settled. Since, however, the actual condition of the deeper layers of the soil between cesspool and well cannot be known, it becomes imperative to prevent all pollution of the ground-water current supplying wells, by either abolishing the cesspools or else placing them at a considerable distance from all sources of water. Besides typhoid fever bacteria, those organisms...
Page 248 - Purulent, cheesy, and muco-purulent sputa most frequently contain the bacilli; pure mucus, blood or saliva do not as a rule contain the bacilli. When hemorrhage has occurred, some purulent, cheesy or muco-purulent sputum should, if possible, be collected for the examination.
Page 157 - The Ithaca (NY) epidemic of 1903, for the time being practically broke up Cornell University. There were 1,350 cases in a population of 13,156, or more than one sick among every ten. More than 500 homes were visited and there were 82 deaths. There were 3,000 students, hundreds of whom left town, some ill with the disease; these doubtless scattered the disease elsewhere. "One episode of the epidemic is worthy of special mention, namely a secondary outbreak which resulted from the infection of a well....
Page 288 - ... nor should it be located in the barnyard, where the ground is usually saturated with manure. It should be surrounded by turf, and not by richly manured, cultivated, or irrigated soil. The ground immediately around it should slope gently away from it and be paved if possible. The waste water...