Annual report of the Commissioner of the Michigan Department of Health for the fiscal year ending ... 1882State Department of Health, 1883 |
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Ann Arbor April attending August average per cent Battle Creek Board of Health bronchitis cause cent of weekly cerebro-spinal child cholera infantum cholera morbus circular consumption contagion contagious croup daily range danger deaths Detroit diarrhea diphtheria disinfection Dysentery epidemic Erysipelas Escanaba Exhibit feet girls Grand Haven health officer hospital hygiene infected Influenza Intermittent fever Ionia July June Kalamazoo Lansing less letter malarial Mallory Lake March measles meningitis meteorological months neuralgia number of replies observations outbreak ozone patient persons physician pneumonia Port Huron present prevalence proposition public health pupils quarantine question Reed City remittent fever Reports Stating Presence respectfully rheumatism river scarlet fever Sept sewer small-pox teachers temperature theria Thornville tion tonsilitis Total number township typho-malarial fever typhoid fever vaccination Vapor varioloid ventilation village weekly reports whooping-cough
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Page 325 - 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 164 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her ; 'tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy : for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is...
Page 164 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith...
Page 26 - Every year thousands undergo this operation; and the French ambassador says, pleasantly, that they take the small-pox here by way of diversion, as they take the waters in other countries.
Page 258 - Keep a just and true account of the receipts and expenditures of all moneys which shall come into his hands by virtue of his office, in a book to be provided for that purpose at the expense of the town, and to be delivered to his successor in office.
Page 160 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work...
Page 26 - The smallpox, so fatal and so general amongst us, is here entirely harmless by the invention of ingrafting, which is the term they give it. There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the smallpox ; they make parties for this purpose, and when they are met (commonly fifteen or sixteen together), the old woman comes...
Page 162 - Tennyson is a grand specimen of a man, with a magnificent head set on his shoulders like the capital of a mighty pillar. His hair is long and wavy and covers a massive head. He wears a beard and moustache, which one begrudges as hiding so much of that firm, powerful, but finely chiselled mouth.
Page 259 - ... shall have and exercise all the powers and perform all the duties of a board of health as provided in this chapter, within the limits of the cities or villages, respectively, of which they are such officers.
Page 162 - ... the most part designed to expand the chest, and at the same time call into action all the muscles and articulations of the body. These are performed with dumb-bells, the very lightest, covered with flannel ; with a pole, a horizontal bar, and a light chair swung around my head.