Annual report of the State Department of Health of Maine. 1898/99Sprague & Son, 1900 |
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002 Very slight animals Annual Report Antitoxin appearance bacillus Board of Health cent child clothing consumptive patients contagious diseases reported Cottage cough culosis cure danger death death-rate diph diphtheria disinfection dried lymph eight epidemic eruption expectoration experiments fact formaldehyde formalin Four nuisances glycerinated lymph Heavy trace heredity hygienic infectious diseases infectious diseases reported inoculation large number lungs measles Medical milk months mother nuisance removed nuisance was removed nuisances reported nuisances were reported observation occurred persons phthisis physician PLANTATION present public health pulmonary tuberculosis reported and removed revaccination sanatorium Sanitarium sanitary says scarlet fever Secretary slight trace smallpox solution spittoons Spring sputum sterile symptoms temperature theria Three nuisances removed Three nuisances reported three of typhoid tion town trace Very slight treatment tuber tubercle bacilli tubercular tuberculous tuberculous sputum tubes typhoid fever vaccination vaccine lymph vesicles
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Страница 51 - 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 267 - 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 128 - ... 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 14 - 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 of lime should be freshly prepared, but may be kept a few days if it is closely stoppered.
Страница 191 - I have seen case after case in children, and in animals fed on tuberculous material, the lung 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 retro-peritoneal glands up through the diaphragm to the posterior mediastinal and bronchial glands and so on to the lungs. I have not seen this in a few cases only, but in dozens of children, in a few adults, and in many...
Страница 31 - Pour in 2 or 3 inches of water, place the articles to be disinfected above the false flooring, put on the cover and steam one hour after the water begins to boil, keeping the water briskly boiling all the time. To insure certainty of success there must be a brisk fire and the steam must be kept steaming through the articles all the time.
Страница 14 - Water, i gallon. Mix. This may be used as a substitute for Solution 1, one-half the strength sufficing for uncolored clothing. Many colors are changed by it, SOLUTION 3. Solutol (crude or pure), 1-2 pint, Water, 2 or 3 gallons. Mix. This is a very efficient disinfectant for excreta, tuberculous sputum, and gross disinfection generally. If to...
Страница 226 - Empty straw beds, bum straw, and disinfect tick with steam as under (A). Burn cheap mattresses. A mattress worth the trouble may be disinfected with formaldehyde as follows: Make a tight box large enough to contain it; render it air-tight by pasting up all cracks and corners with stout, firm paper. Place the mattress in it and sprinkle or spray it with at least 4 ounces (1 gill) of formalin; put on the cover quickly, paste it up.
Страница 256 - ... thicknesses of blankets, the patient sits or reclines all day. Only on blustery, stormy or very rainy days is the patient to remain in the house. No degree of cold is a contraindication. This continuous open-air life at rest is the most powerful influence possessed to-day against the fever of tuberculosis. In any long series of cases the patients who do well are those who take plenty of food.
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