State Board of Health Bulletin: Tennessee, Volumes 9-101893 |
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Anderson Annual Average number Board of Health Board of Health.-No Bolivar bowel troubles bronchitis Byrdstown Campbell cattle Chattanooga chicken-pox cholera City Health Officer City.-No report Clarksville Colored consumption County Health Officer county-Dr Covington Date Davidson Day of greatest deaths diphtheria disinfection dysentery E. W. COLE epidemic fatal Florence Station Franklin Gibson Greatest daily range Greatest rainfall grippe Hamilton Hardeman Health.-No report Hohenwald inches infection J. D. PLUNKET Jacksboro Knox Knoxville lagrippe Least daily range little sickness malarial fever Maury Mean depth measles Medical Memphis mild form Montgomery monthly range mumps Nashville number of days Nunnelly observed occurred past month pneumonia precipitation President City President City Board President of City prevailing diseases quarantine rheumatism Riddleton Rogersville Rugby Rutherford sanitary scarlet fever Secretary City Board Shelby smallpox Smith snowfall Springdale temperature Tenn Tennessee tion Tipton tonsilitis town tuberculosis Tullahoma typhoid fever vaccination Weather Bureau White whooping cough Whooping-cough Williamson
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Page 163 - Wash the cars and the feeding and watering troughs with water until clean. (c.) Saturate the walls and floors of the cars and the fencing, troughs and chutes of the pens with a solution made by dissolving four ounces of chloride of lime to each gallon of water, or disinfect the cars with a jet of steam under a pressure of not less than fifty pounds to the square inch.
Page 108 - An act for the establishment of a bureau of animal industry, to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle, and to provide means for the suppression and extirpation of pleuro-pneumonia and other contagious diseases among domestic animals," and to co-operate with the authorities of the United States in the enforcement of the provisions of such act.
Page 196 - Act, who shall willfully neglect or refuse to comply with either of the above provisions, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars, or confined in the county jail for a period of not more than three months, one or both, in the discretion of the court.
Page 9 - 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 108 - ... in such disinfection and quarantine measures as may be necessary to prevent the spread of the disease from one state or territory into another.
Page 164 - He shall have general supervision of all contagious and infectious diseases among domestic animals within or that may be in transit through the state...
Page 108 - Annual Report of the Superintendent of Health, of the city of Providence, for the year ending December 31, 1898.
Page 197 - Infective period : from the onset of initial symptoms till all scabs have been removed. The period of greatest infectivity is during the acute stage (vesicular and pustular). During the initial illness, and until the appearance of the rash, the liability to impart infection is not great.
Page 163 - Remove all litter and manure. This litter and manure may be disinfected by mixing it with lime...
Page 164 - ... shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or...