The Public health movement...American academy of political and social science, 1911 - 334 pages |
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American Association bacillus blindness boards of health breeding bubonic plague Bureau California campaign causes of death census cent child clean committee death rate defects Department of Health diphtheria effective enforcement epidemic especially established fact Federal feeble-minded flies Health and Marine health department health officers homes hookworm houses hundred Hygienic Laboratory important improvement increased Indians infection institutions investigation Irving Fisher large numbers larvæ Leprosy living malaria Marine Hospital Service means medical inspection methods milk mortality statistics mosquito mouth municipal number of cities nurses ophthalmia neonatorum organized parasites patients persons physicians plague population practical prevention problem proper public health records registration laws registration of births reports rural districts sanitary sanitation scarlet fever school children secure standard studies supply teeth tion trachoma treatment Trematode tuberculosis typhoid fever United ventilation vital statistics yellow fever York City
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Page 274 - No. 26.— On the stability of the oxidases and their conduct toward various reagents. The conduct of phenolphthalein in the animal organism. A test for saccharin, and a simple method of distinguishing between cumarin and vanillin. The toxicity of ozone and other oxidizing agents to lipase.
Page 422 - SEC. 4. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed ; and whereas an emergency exists, this ordinance shall be in effect upon and immediately after its passage.
Page 330 - In my message of last year I recommended the creation of a Bureau of Health, in which should be embraced all those Government agencies outside of the War and Navy Departments which are now directed toward the preservation of public health or exercise functions germane to that subject. I renew this recommendation. I greatly regret that the agitation in favor of this bureau has aroused a counteragitation against its creation, on the ground that the establishment of such a bureau is to be in the interest...
Page 415 - My reasons for believing that flies were active in the dissemination of typhoid may be stated as follows : a Flies swarmed over infected fecal matter in the pits and then visited and fed upon the food prepared for the soldiers at the mess tents. In some instances where lime had recently been sprinkled over the contents of the pits, flies with their feet whitened with lime were seen walking over the food.
Page 414 - typhoid fly " is open to some objection, as conveying the erroneous idea that this fly is solely responsible for the spread of typhoid, but considering that the creature is dangerous from every point of view, and that it is an important element in the spread of typhoid, it seems advisable to give it a name which is almost wholly justified and which conveys in itself the idea of serious disease. Another repulsive name that might be given to it is
Page 422 - His body is covered with disease germs. "Do not allow decaying material of any sort to accumulate on or near your premises. "All refuse which tends in any way to fermentation, such as bedding, straw, paper waste and vegetable matter, should be disposed of or covered with lime or kerosene oil.
Page 520 - Should any midwife or nurse having charge of an infant in this State, notice that one or both eyes of such infant are inflamed or reddened, at any time within two weeks after its birth, it shall be the duty of such midwife or nurse so having charge of such infant, to report the fact in writing, within six hours, to the health officer, or some legally qualified practitioner of medicine...
Page 459 - In certain buildings where the results of changing from poor to good ventilation have been carefully observed, a marked improvement in the general health of the occupants has been manifest. For example: The records of the United States Pension Bureau show that when the offices of the Department were located in scattered and poorly ventilated buildings 18,736 days were lost by employees through illness in one year, and about the same number for several successive years. "When the Department became...
Page 330 - I greatly regret that the agitation in favor of this bureau has aroused a counteragitation against its creation, on the ground that the establishment of such a bureau is to be in the interest of a particular school of medicine. It seems to me that this assumption is wholly unwarranted, and that those responsible for the Government can be trusted to secure in the personnel of the bureau the appointment of representatives of all recognized schools of medicine, and in the management of the bureau entire...
Page 274 - Mueller, 1787. III. Three new American cases of infection of man with horsehair worms (species Paragordius varius), with summary of all cases reported to date.