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Страница 184 - For the destruction of infectious material which owes -its infecting power to the presence of micro-organisms not containing spores, the committee recommends : 1. Fire. Complete destruction by burning. 2. Boiling in water half an hour. 3. Dry heat. 110° C. (230° Fahr.) for two hours. 4. Chloride of lime.
Страница 271 - Public Health is the foundation on which reposes the happiness of the people and the power of a country. The care of the public health is the first duty of a statesman.
Страница 305 - Slake a quart of freshly burnt lime (in small pieces) with three fourths of a quart of water — or, to be exact, 60 parts of water by weight with 100 of lime. A dry powder of slaked lime (hydrate of lime) results. Make milk of lime not long before it is to be used by mixing one part of this dry hydrate of lime with eight parts (by weight) of water. Air-slaked lime is worthless. The dry hydrate may be preserved some time if it is enclosed in an air-tight container. Milk...
Страница 196 - I have seen in case after case of children, and in animals fed on tuberculous material, the lungs markedly affected, but in a large proportion of these cases it has been possible to trace the course of invasion back from a caseous or old calcareous mesenteric gland through the chain of retroperitoneal glands, up through the diaphragm to the posterior mediastinal and bronchial glands, and so on to the lung. I have not seen this in a few cases only, but in dozens of children, in a few adults, and in...
Страница 130 - ... 1870 the German army regulations did not require vaccination, and smallpox became so prevalent among their troops in France and following their withdrawal and dispersion to home stations, the disease prevailed so extensively in Germany that the vaccination law was passed in 1874. This law required vaccination during the first year of life and again at the age of twelve. Since that time and until the present war, a period of forty years, only two deaths from smallpox occurred in the German army,...
Страница 18 - If there be no board of health the same action may be taken by the postmaster upon the declaration of a regular county or city medical society, or, if there be none, upon the advice of a physician reputable in his profession. The mail so returned shall be held until the prohibition is removed, and shall, after being properly fumigated under the directions of the medical authorities, be dispatched to its destination.
Страница 250 - Ordinary bed sheets were employed to secure an adequate evaporating surface, and these, suspended in the room, were simply sprayed with a 40 per cent. solution through a common watering-pot rose-head. A sheet of the usual size and quality will carry from 150 to 180 cc. of the solution without dripping, and this quantity has been found sufficient for the efficient disinfection of 1,000 cubic feet of space. Of course, the sheets may be multiplied to any necessary number. "Cultures, both moist and dry,...
Страница 204 - Iodine in solution is an efficient disinfectant in the proportion of 1 part in 500; the exposure continuing for two hours. 5. The use of chlorine, and in a greater degree of bromine, requires considerable experience in management; when carelessly handled they may cause inconvenient or even dangerous symptoms in persons using them; for these reasons they are not suitable as disinfectants for popular use.
Страница 53 - Annual Meeting of the Conference of State and Provincial Boards of Health of North America will be held in Detroit, Michigan, August 9, 10, and n, 1898. The " Quarter Centennial Celebration of the Establishment of the Michigan State Board of Health " will be in progress at the above named time.
Страница 35 - Be sure that the drinking water and milk are pure. RESTRICTION. As soon as it is found that a person has diphtheria, he should immediately be separated from the rest of the family and put into a sunny and...

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