Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Wisconsin for the Year Ending ..., Том 11

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Wisconsin State Board of Health, 1888
1902/04- include also reports on the vital statistics of the state. From 1906/08- these rports are compiled by the State Bureau of Vita Statistics.

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Страница 105 - The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss: to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. Where are they? With the years beyond the flood.
Страница 92 - Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven, When drooping health and spirits go amiss ? How tasteless then whatever can be given? Health is the vital principle of bliss, And exercise, of health.
Страница 119 - Man can invent nothing in science or religion but falsehood; and all the truths which he discovers are but facts or laws which have emanated from the Creator.
Страница 22 - He shall hold his office during the pleasure of the board, and may be removed at any regular meeting by a majority vote of the members thereof. SEC. 8. The governor shall provide a suitable office for the board in the city of Providence, and the actual expenses of the board and of the members thereof, when certified by the chairman and approved by the governor...
Страница 20 - Board may prescribe, the number of persons attacked with any pestilential, contagious, or infectious disease, attended by such physician...
Страница 91 - Medicine. 1886, appropriate sanitary measures saved the lives of 298 persons, who, under the usual conditions and according to former epidemics, would have died of Diphtheria in a few localities. In Memphis the death rate has been reduced in six years from 35 per 1,000 to 2:3.8 per 1,000. In Chicago the death-rate has been reduced in the last five years from 26 per 1,000 to 19.46, a saving of nearly twenty thousand lives.
Страница 124 - With too much spirit to be e'er at ease ; With too much quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thinking to have common thought ; You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
Страница 52 - It is evident that the quarantine establishments at Philadelphia and Baltimore fail in the most essential requisites of the necessary number of properly equipped buildings for the isolation and observation of a large number of immigrants." Elsewhere in the course of the report the committee says: " To lay the simple statement of these facts before physicians who are in possession of modern knowledge concerning the nature, cause, mode of production, and means of, prevention of such a virulently infectious...
Страница 42 - Typhoid; as a matter of fact it exists to a greater or less extent in nearly all parts of the...
Страница 122 - Bitters," and to contain no alcohol. He fell in with an enterprising druggist of this city, who saw money in the project and embarked in it. At the suggestion of the latter, the " Indian " was struck out, and as the new medicine got sour by fermentation, it was concluded to call it " Vinegar Bitters," and to identify it with the movement against alcoholic drinks. The mountain herbs were thrust aside, and aloes, being a cheap bitter, was substituted. " Nine sick people out of ten," said the druggist,...

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