Social Diseases, Volume 2, Issue 2 |
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Page 20 - ... by the exercise of proper and vigilant medical inspection and control of all persons and things infected with or exposed to such diseases, and provide suitable places for the treatment and care of sick persons who cannot otherwise be provided for.
Page 24 - Tuberculosis is hereby declared to be an infectious and communicable disease, dangerous to the public health. It shall be the duty of every physician in the state of New York...
Page 30 - ... protection would follow with time, as they have in regard to other contagious diseases; as the public became aware of the dangers arising from syphilis, and the benefits accruing from its restriction, there would be no difficulty in securing proper laws relating to the subject. The suggestion, therefore, is most earnestly put forward that the time has certainly come when the dangers of syphilis, and especially the dangers to innocent persons, should be fully and fairly recognized and met. It...
Page 20 - Every local board of health and every health officer shall guard against the introduction of such infectious and contagious or communicable diseases as are designated in the sanitary code, by the exercise of proper and vigilant medical inspection and control of all persons and things infected with or exposed to such diseases, and provide suitable places for the treatment and care of sick persons who cannot otherwise be provided for.
Page 19 - NW 882, although the statute made no express provision for waiver, but provided in substance merely that no physician should be allowed to disclose any information acquired in attending a patient in a professional character, which information was necessary to enable him to prescribe for the patient as a physician...
Page 33 - November 8, 1865, the following resolutions were passed : "Resolved, That it is the sense of this Committee that the CENTENARY EDUCATIONAL FUND ought to be placed before our people as the prominent object for Connectional Contributions.
Page 18 - You will keep private and inviolable all family secrets which may be confided to you as physicians, and will protect, so far as in you lies, the interests committed to your charge.
Page 20 - Burns 1894, provides that it shall be the duty of local boards of health to protect the public health by the removal of causes of disease when known, and in all cases to take prompt action to arrest the spread of contagious diseases, to abate and remove nuisances dangerous to the public health, and to perform...
Page 2 - ... fever, typhus fever, whooping cough, cholera and cerebro-spinal meningitis. To the most casual observation it is plain that these diseases differ very widely in their menace to society, consumption standing at one end with its ghastly toll of victims, and chicken-pox at the other with no death rate and no serious effect on health. Syphilis and gonorrhea together kill more people than...
Page 18 - We will inviolably keep the innocent secrets of the patients and their families for whom we may be called to prescribe.