Annual report of the Indiana State Board of Health. 1888State Board of Health, 1889 |
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Page 237 - THE PREVENTABLE CAUSES OF DISEASE, INJURY, AND DEATH IN AMERICAN MANUFACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS, AND THE BEST MEANS AND APPLIANCES FOR PREVENTING AND AVOIDING THEM.
Page 3 - Received by the Governor, examined and referred to the Auditor of State for verification of the financial statement. OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF STATE, INDIANAPOLIS, December 31, 1912. The within report, so far as the same relates to moneys drawn from the State Treasury, has been examined and found correct.
Page 3 - Returned by the Auditor of State, with above certificate, and transmitted to Secretary of State for publication, upon the order of the Board of Commissioners of Public Printing and Binding.
Page 27 - The quarters should be kept thoroughly clean, and every surface upon which infectious material could possibly be deposited, including the floors, should be washed with a strong disinfectant twice daily, and oftener when necessary ; evacuations from the bowels should be passed into a strong disinfectant ; the hopper of the closet should be then flushed, and finally drenched with a quantity of the same disinfectant.
Page 25 - ... national health authority and legislation and the fact that, in such absence the maritime quarantines are controlled and administered by State and local authorities, resulting in diverse and frequently conflicting regulations and requirements and of necessity, in a tendency to limit precautions to their own individual interests, commercial as well as sanitary, which throw upon interior States the responsibility of fully informing themselves of the strength or weakness of these outposts in order...
Page 27 - As yet, no reference has been made to the crew, ship, and cargo. What has been said of the treatment of those under observation, applies to every one of the ship's inhabitants. The observation, isolation, and cleansing of the crew and their effects, could safely be performed aboard ship if necessary. The ship should be thoroughly cleansed and disinfected, particular attention being given to the quarters of the emigrants and crew.
Page 26 - ... c. The dead should be well wrapped in cloth thoroughly saturated in a solution of corrosive sublimate, 1 to 500, and without delay, cortege, or lengthy ceremonial, buried near the place of death in a deep grave, remote as possible from water which may, under any circumstances, be used for drinking, washing, culinary, or other domestic purposes. (Cremation, of course, is by far the safest way of disposing of cholera cadavers.)
Page 25 - October, appointed a committee "to consider the present danger of the importation of cholera into this country, and to secure concerted action among the medical societies of the land in urging upon the State and National authorities the adoption of a uniform and efficient system of quarantine for all exposed ports.
Page 212 - In each classroom the window space should not be less than onefourth of the floor space, and the distance of the desk most remote from the window should not be more than one and one-half times the height of the top of the window from the floor.
Page 29 - Rival political and commercial interests are inimical to the perfect protection of the general public by independent and local quarantine." •• It is but natural that municipal organizations should, in looking after their own interests, pay little regard to the welfare of distant communities. "In this connection may be noted the indisposition and failure on the part of local quarantine officers to notify the authorities interested of the arrival of emigrants from infected localities.