Replies to Circular 17, Relative to Scarlet Fever.
Weekly Reports of Diseases, Compiled by Months.
Nashville, Mich., Relative to, Communications from, etc...
Near-Sightedness, Connection of, with Study.....

PAGE.
423-424
..296-342

.354, 373-374

94

Neglect by City Authorities, a Cause of Prevalence of Small-pox in Detroit.. 107
Neuralgia, Compilation of Weekly Reports of, 298, 302, 306, 307, 315, 318, 319, 322, 326,
327, 330, 334, 338, 339, 342, 343.

Newcomb, M. D., D. E., Health Officer of Ash Township, Report of Cases of
Typhoid Fever and Diphtheria...

Ixviii

Nicholson, M. D., A. W., of Otisville, Replies to Circular on Baths and
Bathing.

125

Replies to Circular on Healthful Dwellings.

63

Replies to Circular 15, Relative to Prevailing Diseases, 1876.

Niles, M. D., C. W., of Calumet, Mich., Communication from, relative to Scar-
let Fever.

lxxii

308-326

Weekly Reports of Diseases, Compiled by Months..
Niles, Mich., Relative to, Communications from, etc.,.
Nims, M. D., Dwight, Jackson, Replies to Circular 7, on Water-Supply.
Nirvana, Lake Co., Relative to, Communications from, etc...
Noble, Branch Co., Report of Cases of Measles in....
Normal School, State, Ypsilanti, Meteorological Registers Received from
North Lansing, Relative to, Communications from, etc., lxviii, 63, 125, 172, 174, 184,
197-199, 296-342, 354, 358-359, 398, 414-416.

.xiii, xli, 88, 89, 313–339

148-149

.xiii, xli
lxix

xiii

Northrop, M. D., Geo. J., of Marquette, Replies to Circular on Baths and
Bathing.

125

Replies to Circular on Healthful Dwellings.

62

Replies to Circular 15, Relative to Prevailing Diseases, 1876.
Replies to Circular on Water-Supply.

.187-188

155

Replies to Letter relative to Erysipelas and Puerperal Fever.
Weekly Reports of Diseases, Compiled by Months..

348-349

.304-322

Northup, M. D., M., of Port Huron, Concerning Consumption.

309

Replies to Circular 15, Relative to Prevailing Diseases, 1876.
Replies to Circular on Water-supply....

Relative to, Communications from, etc....125, 173, 175, 230-231, 297–343, 354, 356-357
Novi, Oakland Co., Relative to Diseases in, in 1876..
Nurses and Attendants of Scarlet Fever Patients, Cleanliness of, How Secured XXX
Should be isolated....

Nursing Bottles, preferable to Spoons or Cups, Care of, etc.,..
Nutrition Perverted by Intemperance, Inheritable.

0.

XXX, 404-447

104
12,13

Oakland, Oakland Co., Relative to Diphtheria at, etc..

381

Oakley, M. D., F. M., of York, Weekly Reports of Diseases, Compiled by Months, 325-343
Oath, Official, Should be Taken by Health Officers, and Filed with Clerk, xix, xxii
xxxiv, xxxvi.

Observers, Meteorological, for this Board, Equipment of..

Observers of Diseases, Printed Letter to, Asking for Missing Reports.

Printed Letter to, stating Plan of Weekly Reports..

Who are Called Such..

Weekly Reports, Number, by Months, and by Divisions of the State..

Office-work of this Board..

Ohio and Michigan Inspection of Oil, Differences Explained.
Oil Casks, Empty, Penalty for Selling Before Removing the Brand.

.xii, xxiii, xli

xiii

xiii

XXV
240-243

Oils Rejected for Illuminating Purposes, Law Against Selling for Such Purpose

XXV

250, 251

xi, liv
78-79

82

81

PAGE.

62

204

162

424

194

125

Oldfield, M. D., A. M., of Lexington, Replies to Circular on Healthful Dwellings
Replies to Circular 15, Relative to Prevailing Diseases, 1876..
Replies to Circular on Water-supply..

Replies to Circular 17, Relative to Scarlet Fever..
Olive, Clinton Co., Relative to Death of Horses in..

Ottawa, Replies from, Relative to Baths and Bathing.

Otisville, Genesee Co., Relative to, Communications from, etc., xiii, xli, lx, 63, 125,
157-158, 172, 174, 180, 182, 184, 199-200, 320-342, 398, 417-419.

Otsego, Allegan Co., Relative to, Communications from, etc. Ivii, lxxii-lxxiii, 63, 125,
173, 174, 180, 184, 210, 297-343, 398, 430-431.

Outdoor Recreations..

Ovid Register, Case of Poisoning Quoted from.

.33, 35-42
25-26

Ovid, Clinton Co., Relative to, Communications from, etc. 125, 151–152, 166, 172, 174,
180, 182, 200, 300-342.

Owosso, Shiawassee Co., Relative to, Communications from, etc....88, 89, 129, 308-310
Oxalic Acid, Mistaken for Epsom Salts......

24

Ozone, Germicide Power of, Prevention of Scarlet Fever, by.

428

P.

Packard, M. D., N. I., of Sturgis, Mich., Replies to Letter of Inquiry relative
to Diphtheria.

Padfield, M. D., A. L., of St. Clair, Replies to Circular on Healthful Dwellings
Replies to Letter of Inquiry relative to Diphtheria..
Weekly Reports of Diseases, Compiled by Months..

64

365-366

..313-315

Palmer, M. D., E. N., of Brooklyn, Mich., Meteorological table for 1876, fur-
nished by.

Palmer, D. W., Clerk of Bridgewater, Washtenaw Co., Report of Outbreak of
Typhoid Fever, by..

..lxvi-lxvii

214

Replies to Circular on Baths and Bathing..

121

Replies to Circular on Healthful Dwellings.

Replies to Circular 15, Relative to Prevailing Diseases, 1876.

Replies to Circular on Water-Supply..

Replies to Letter of Inquiry relative to Diphtheria..

Replies to Circular 17, relative to Scarlet Fever.

Weekly Reports of Diseases, Compiled by Months.

Palmer, M. D., Geo. C., on Use of Bath at Mich. Asylum for Insane.

58

213-214

.153-154

370-371

433-434

305-343

127-128

Papers and Articles in this Volume, Enumeration and Classification of..
Paper, Stationery, etc., Used by this Board, Fiscal Year 1877...

vii

lii-liii

Paraffine and Naphtha, Why Added to, or not Always Removed from, Ker-

osene

73

Paraffine, Bad Effect of, on Illuminating Quality of Kerosene.
Paraffine Lessens the Capillarity of Kerosene..

74-75

75

Paris Green, Case of Fatal Poisoning by, Reported by Dr. J. H. Beech of Cold-

water...

lvi

Paris, Huron Co., Relative to Small-pox in..

..lx, 313-333

Parker, Hon. LeRoy, Com. on Finance, Endorsement by, on Secretary's Report
of Property, 1877...

liv

Committee on Finances of the Board..

viii

Committee on Legislation in the Interests of Public Health..

viii

Postoffice Address as a Member of this Board...

vii

Replies to Circular on Baths and Bathing.

Report of Proceedings of Health Dept. of Am. Social Science Assn....
Parmenter, M. D., Wm., of Vermontville, Reply to Circular on Healthful
Dwellings.

123

91-98

65

Passions, Recreations to be Chosen that Least Arouse the.
Pauperism Indicates Exhausted Vitality of Families..

Pauperism in "Jukes Family".

Penal Institutions, Need for Study of Heredity in Management of..

44

14, 15

10

Paw Paw, Van Buren County, Relative to, Communication from, etc..

.63, 297-343

18

Penalty for Selling Illuminating Oils not Inspected....
Pentwater, Oceana Co., Relative to Inspection of Illuminating Oils at.
Persistence in Efforts to Resuscitate the Drowned, Need for.
Petitions for Lowering Test of Illuminating Oil, Source of..
Petroleum from Butler (Pa.) County, Contains Large Amount of Paraffine.
Petroleum, Process of Refining, and Products of Distillation of..
Petroleum, Where Found..........

PAGE.

82.

88-89

133-142

79

72

72-73

72

124

Physicians, Qualifications of, Proposal for Law concerning.

Physician, Case in which he may offer to vaccinate.
The Health Officer, where Practicable, Must be a..

Phelps, M. D., O. S., Homer, Replies to Circular on Baths and Bathing.
Replies to Circular on Healthful Dwellings.

Philips, Maj. P. D., concerning Rag Weed as a Cause of Hay Fever.

Physical Education, Benefits of, at Amherst College....

453

Physical Development, Exaggerations of, may Become Disease..

Physicians and Householders to Notify Local Bds. of Health of Cases of Dis-

eases Dangerous to the Public Health....

Sanitary Progress Dependent upon.

-XV, xxvii¡, xxxi, xxxiii

lvii
.xxxii, xxxiii
109

.xix, xxi, xxxiv

Pine Grove, Van Buren Co., Relative to Typhoid Fever in.

lxv

lxix

.379-380, 381

Plan of Weekly Reports of Diseases, Printed Letter to Observers, Stating.

Poisons, etc.. Committee on, Report of, on Labelling Medicines..
Pollution of Streams, Dr. Folsom, of Mass., on..
Pontiac, Relative to, Communications from, etc. lxxii, 164, 297-343, 354, 363, 399, 441,
442-444.

21-26

452

Poor, Gratuitous Surgical Treatment of the...

454

Port Huron, Relative to, Communications from, etc., lxxi, 63-64, 88, 89, 164-165, 172,
174, 182, 204, 296-342, 375, 377, 398, 424-426.

Port Sanilac, Relative to, Communications from, etc., 64, 125, 172, 174, 180, 205, 296-
342, 325, 359.

"Preefficients of a person;" viz., Heredity, Spontaneity, Environment.
President and Common Council of Villages to Constitute Bd. of Health, Gen-
eral Law..

3

..xxi, xxxi
.xix-xx

Presidents of Local Bds. of Health, Circular 18, to..
Presidents of Villages, etc., Circular [20] to, Transmitting Blank for Return
of Name, etc., of Health Officer..

.xxi-xxii

Presidents, Village, Circular to, relative to Distribution of Fourth Annual
Report of This Board...

..xxvii-xxviii

Prevention and Restriction of Scarlet Fever. (See Restriction and Preven-
tion of S. F.)

Prevention and Restriction of Small-pox, Resolution of This Board concern-
ing....

..xiv, xxxv, 109

Printed Letter to Observers of Diseases, Asking for Missing Reports..

Stating Plan of Weekly Reports.

XXV
.240-243

Privy-vaults, Necessity for Making, Water-tight.

54

Proceedings of this Board, Abstract of, Fiscal Year 1877.

Property of this Board, Secretary's Report of, Fiscal Year 1877..

Prostitution, Restriction of, by Law, Inquiry as to..

.liv-lxiii
xl-liv
18

Psychical Traits Transmissible..

6

Publication of Papers in Annual Reports of this Board, Resolution concern-
ing.

.iv, vii, x

Public Health and Public Holidays, Rev. Brooke Hereford, on..

454

Public Health, Address on Heredity in its relation to..

1-19

Public Health Laws of Mich., Pamphlet Compilation of, sent to Local Health
Officers..

.xxxiv

Public Health, Legislation in the Interest of....

16,17

Public Health, Dr. E. Harris on Results of State Legislation on..
Public Institutions, Necessity for Conveniences for Recreations in..

lxi, lxii

44

Puerperal Fever and Erysipelas, Relative to (See Erysipelas and Puer. Fever)345-350
Puerperal Fever, Compilation of Weekly Reports of..
Pulaski, Jackson Co., Relative to Diphtheria in..

248-249, 254-343-
381

PAGE.

ence..

Purity of Bood Characteristic of Families of Eminent English Men of Sci-
Q.

16

Qualifications of Physicians, Proposal for Law Concerning.
Quarterly Meetings of this Board, Abstract of Proceedings at, Fiscal Year.

lvii

1877.

Quincy, Branch Co., Relative to Small-pox in....
Quinine, as a Preventive of Scarlet Fever..
Morphine, Strychnine, etc., Mistaken for...

liv-lxiii

323

416

24

R.

Rag Weed, Hay Fever Attributed to..

299

Railroad Switches, Frogs, and Guard-rails, Special Danger Near.

459-464

Randall, M. D., I. E., of Wenona or West Bay City, Replies to Letter of In-
quiry Relative to Diphtheria.

375-376

Weekly Reports of Diseases, Compiled by Months.

-297-342

Ranney, M. D., G. E., of Lansing, Communications from, Concerning, Vaccine
Virus, and Resolutions of this Board Thanking Him for Obtaining, Reliable lviii
lx, lxiii.
Weekly Reports of Diseases, Compiled by Months..

Rauch, Dr. John H., of Chicago, on Unfavorable Location of Chicago.
Reception of Members of Am. Pub. Health Assn., by Levi Z. Leiter, of Chicago
Record of Cases of Diseases Dangerous to the Public Health, Blank Form For,
Sent to Health Officers of Townships, Cities, and Villages.
Record of Cases of Diseases Dangerous to the Public Health, Printed Blank,

Where Obtained, and Cost...

Record of Inspected Illuminating Oils, Law Concerning.

Recreations by Excursion and Travel....

By Gymnastic Exercises and Military Drill.

By Music and Dancing, and by Games..

By Rowing and Yatching.

By Skating, Ball-playing, Hunting, and Fishing.

By Walking, Running, Driving, and Swimming.
Definition of.

Necessity for..

Recreations and Health, Paper by Rev. C. H. Brigham.

Recreations, Necessity for Conveniences for, in Public Institutions.
Classification of, According to Age, Climate, Faculties Used, Sex, etc..
Needed by All Classes..

.308-318

451

457

xxxii, xxxv

.xxviii, xxxiii

82

41

40-41

42-44

40

38

35-37

35

30

27-46

44

31-44

45

Redfield, E. R., Health Officer of Oakland township, Oakland Co., Special Report
Relative to Diphtheria..

381

Reed, M. D., R. H., H. O. of Grant, Keweenaw Co., Special Report of Whooping-
cough and Measles..

327

Reeves, M. D., J. S., of East Tawas and Niles, Special Report of Catarrh, and

Reform Schools, Need for Study of Heredity in Management of.
Registration of Vital Statistics in the U. S., Dr. E. Harris on.
Regular Meetings of this Board, when Held..

18

97-98

Replies by Correspondents:

to Circular on Baths and Bathing.

to Circular on Healthful Dwellings.

to Circular 7, on Water-Supply of Localities in Michigan.

to Circular 15, Relative to Prevailing Diseases, in 1876.

to Circular 11, Relative to Diseases, in 1875.

and Others to Letter of Inquiry relative to Diphtheria..
to Circular 17, relative to Scarlet Fever..........

.viii, liv

.120-126
57-66

.lxiii, 147–166
.ixii, 187-233
..lix, 235-236
.lix, 356-378, 381
.lxii, 408-447

Replies by Observers of Diseases to letter of Inquiry relative to Erysipelas
and Puerperal Fever.....

Report, Copy of Record of Cases of Diseases Dangerous to the Public Health,
Blank for....

PAGE.

.348-350

XV, Xviii

of an Epidemic of Scarlet Fever at Otisville, Genesee Co., by A. W. Nichol-
son, M. D...

.lx, 417-418

of Proceedings of Health Dept. of Am. Social Science Assn., by Hon. LeRoy
Parker..

of Secretary, Relative to Property, etc., Fiscal Year 1877.
of Special Investigation of Outbreak of Diphtheria at Rochester, Oakland
Co., by J. S. Caulkins, M. D., of Thornville..

91-98
xl-liv

.xi, lxiii, 381-390

of Special Investigation of Outbreak of Diphtheria at Union City, Mich., by
J. H. Beech, M. D., of Coldwater.

of State Inspector of Illuminating Oils.

on Baths and Bathing, by H. F. Lyster, M. D..

on Healthful Dwellings, by H. F. Lyster, A. M., M. D.

.xi, lvi, lvii, lix, 354-356

85-90
.111-130

47-67

..131-142

on Resuscitation of the Drowned, by Prof. R. C. Kedzie.
and Communications, Special, to this Board, lxiii, lxxiii, 298-343, 348-350, 354–356,
378-390, 417-418, 461-463.

Annual, of this Board, Papers for, to be in Hands of Sec. by Oct. Meeting... lxi
Requisites to Healthful Dwellings, Replies by Correspondents concerning.. 57-66
Resolution as to Publication of Papers in Reports of this Board..
..iv, vii,
Resolutions, Memorial from this Board to Legislature, etc., relative to Illu
minating Oils...
lvi-lvii, lix, lxi, lxxiii

General, of this Board..

X

X

.lv-lvi, lxiii

Of this Board, Relative to Sickness and Death of Dr. Z. E. Bliss, of Grand
Rapids
of this Board Thanking Dr. Ranney for Obtaining Reliable Bovine Virus.. lxiii
Restriction and Prevention of Small-pox..
...xiv, xxxv, 109
Restriction and Prevention of Scarlet Fever, Document of this Board on..xxix-xxxii
Suggestions by Correspondents as to, (Paragraphs 66 and unnumbered), 407-408,
409, 411, 414, 416, 419, 421, 423, 426, 428, 429, 431, 433, 434, 435, 436, 439, 440, 442, 443,
444, 447.

Mention of Document on, xiv, xxiv, xxxviii, lv, lix, 393–394, 411, 421, 431, 434, 444, 447
Resuscitation of the Drowned, Cases Showing Benefit of Prolonged Efforts in 134-138
Resuscitation of the Drowned, Report on, by Prof. R. C. Kedzie..

Rhigoline, Fatal Accident from Explosion of..

Manufacture and Uses of..

Rheumatism, Compilation of Weekly Reports of.

Ribot's, Th., " Heredity," Quotations from..

.131-142

73

72-73

248-249, 255-343

.3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 17

Richardson, M. D., Wm., Carson City, Replies to Circular on Baths and Bath-
ing.

Richland, Kalamazoo Co., Resuscitation of a Drowned Boy in.
Rickets, Mortality from..

Ridgeway, Lenawee Co., Relative to Diseases in, in 1876..
Riley, Clinton Co., Death of Horses in...

.121-122

136-137

12

215

194

lxvii

River Raisin, Washtenaw Co., Communication from, concerning Typhoid Fever
Robinson, H. S., Clerk of Berrien Township, Report of Cases of Scarlet Fever
Rochester, Oakland Co., Special Report of Outbreak of Diphtheria at, by J. S.
Caulkins, M. D., of Thornville, Mich......

lxxi

xi, lxiii, 353, 354, 381-390

Rockford, Kent Co., Relative to, Communications from, etc. 125-126, 157, 309, 312-342,
367, 380, 398, 410.

Rogers, J. C., of Marquette, Sergt. Signal Service, U. S. A. Meteorological table
for 1876 furnished by.

187

Rome, unhealthfulness of.

50

Ross, M. D., Benj. B., of East Saginaw, Replies to Circular 15, Relative to
Prevailing Diseases, 1876.

Weekly Reports of Diseases, Compiled by Months.

.202-203
.296-298

Rotheln, Compilation of Weekly Reports of.

.315, 319, 326, 330, 331

Rouse, M. D., W. H., of Detroit, Communication from, on Bovine Vaccine Virus, lvii,
lviii.

Replies to Circular 15, Relative to Prevailing Diseases, 1870.

225-228

Replies to Letter of Inquiry Relative to Diphtheria..

228

122

59

364