Biennial Report of the Department of Public Health of CaliforniaState of California Department of Public Health., 1890 1892/1894-1894/1896 include also, The Transactions of the second and fourth annual sanitary conventions held at San José, April 16, 1894 and Los Angeles, April 20, 1896. |
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Alameda Anaheim Anderson Angels Camp appointed bacilli Bakersfield Board of Health Briceland BRONCHITIS C. A. Ruggles California cattle Chico China CHOLERA CHOLERA INFANTUM Cluness coast College City Colton condition consumption contagious Cottonwood County Hospital CROUP death rate DIARRHEA DIARRHEA AND DYSENTERY diphtheria disinfected Downey DYSENTERY epidemic ERYSIPELAS Etna Mills expenses of Dr FEVER caused Fresno G. G. TYRRELL Health Officer hundred increase infection instances Jolon Knights Ferry Lemoore lepers leprosy Livermore Lockeford Lodi Los Angeles Mariposa MEASLES Merced mild month mortality Napa Nevada City noticed Oakland occurred in San Orme patients persons PNEUMONIA present public health quarantine rainfall Ranch Red Bluff Sacramento Salinas San Bernardino San Diego San Francisco San José sanitary Santa Barbara Santa Cruz SCARLET FEVER Secretary sewage Shasta sickness Sisson smallpox sporadic Stockton temperature thousand tion Total town Truckee Tulare TYPHO-MALARIAL FEVER TYPHOID FEVER vaccination WHOOPING-COUGH yellow fever
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Page 22 - The taxes so levied shall be computed and entered on the assessment roll by the county auditor, and collected at the same time and in the same manner as State and county taxes: and when collected shall be paid into the county treasury for the use of the district in which the tax was voted.
Page 145 - Singapore for delivering goods in cases, and it is only a question of a very short time when other concerns will follow suit.
Page 227 - The board shall take cognizance of the interests of health and life among the citizens of this Commonwealth. They shall make sanitary investigations and inquiries in respect to the people, the causes of disease, and especially of epidemics, and the sources of mortality and the effects of localities, employments, conditions and circumstances on the public health...
Page 13 - RULE 4. The bodies of persons dead of diseases that are not contagious, infectious, or communicable, may be received for transportation to local points in...
Page 35 - They shall have charge of all matters pertaining to quarantine; and shall have authority to make such rules and regulations, and such sanitary investigations, as they may from time to time deem necessary, for the preservation or improvement of public health ; and it shall be the duty of all police officers, sheriffs, constables and all other officers and employes of the State, to enforce such rules and regulations, so far as the efficiency and success of the Board may depend upon their official co-operation.
Page 29 - Anything which is injurious to health, or is indecent, or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property...
Page 47 - ... benefits of the common schools therein any child or any person who has not been vaccinated until such time when said child or person shall be successfully vaccinated: Provided, That any practicing and licensed physician may certify that the child or person has used due diligence and can not be vaccinated so as to produce a successful vaccination, whereupon such child or person shall be excepted from the operation of this act.
Page 272 - Sewage can be much more efficiently filtered through open sand than through sand covered with soil. Very fine material, like dust, in the upper layers of a filter, prevents free access of air, and when wet, may exclude air so completely as to render purification impossible. With soil or sand containing dust at the surface, periods of intermission in the application of sewage may be made so long that the surface, becoming dry, may allow air to enter, and a high degree of purification may result; but...
Page 13 - ... dangerous to the public health, and will not be accepted for transportation unless said removal has been approved by the State Board of Health, and the consent of the health authority of the locality to which the corpse is consigned has been first obtained and the disinterred remains enclosed in a hermetically sealed (soldered) zinc, tin or copper lined coffin or box, or box encased in a hermetically sealed (soldered) zinc, tin or copper cases.
Page 227 - ... and they shall gather such information in respect to those matters as they may deem proper, for diffusion among the people. They shall advise the government in regard to the location of any public institutions.