Report, Volume 16

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1881/82-1882/83, 1936/38- include also the registration reports for 1881-1882, 1936/37-
 

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Page 94 - RULE 6. Every dead body must be accompanied by a person in charge, who must be provided with a passage ticket and also present a full first-class ticket marked "Corpse...
Page 50 - ... set it on fire by hot coals or with the aid of a spoonful of alcohol, and allow the room to remain closed for twenty-four hours. For a room about ten feet square, at least two pounds of sulphur should be used ; for larger rooms, proportionally increased quantities.
Page 49 - Especial care must be taken to wash away all dust from window-ledges and other places where it may have settled, and to thoroughly cleanse crevices and out-of-the-way places. After this application of the disinfecting solution, and an interval of twenty-four hours or longer for free ventilation, the floors and woodwork should be well scrubbed with soap and hot water, and this should be followed by a second more prolonged exposure to fresh air, admitted through open doors and windows.
Page 90 - Yes, sir, after those men obtained it ; the bill was introduced the past year, but it was defeated in the senate.
Page 94 - The physician's certificate and transit permit shall be handed to the passenger in charge of corpse. The whole duplicate copy shall be sent to the official in charge of the baggage department of the initial line, and by him to the secretary of the state or provincial board of health of the state or province from which said shipment was made.
Page 92 - That the National Conference of State and Provincial Boards of Health of North America...
Page 48 - For a free and general use in privy vaults, sewers, sink-drains, refuse heaps, stables, and wherever else the odor of the disinfectant is not objectionable, this is one of the cheapest and most effective disinfectants and germicides available for general use. It should be used so freely as to wet everything required to be disinfected. Its odor does not disinfect — only covers up other odors. Solution No. 2. Corrosive sublimate, one ounce ; permanganate of potash, one ounce ; water, eight gallons....
Page 95 - Every disinterred body, dead from any disease or cause, shall be treated as infectious...
Page 105 - Any person desiring to engage in or work at the business of plumbing, either as a master or employing plumber, or as a journeyman plumber, shall...
Page 94 - ... carefully examine the transit permit and note the name of the passenger in charge, and of any others proposing to accompany the body, and see that all necessary precautions have been taken to prevent the spread of the disease. The transit permit in such cases shall specifically state who is authorized by the health authorities to accompany the remains.

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