Report of the Health OfficerU.S. Government Printing Office, 1886 - Public health |
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&c.-Continued 11 p. m. Total 14th st 9th st AGE OF DECEDENT Annual Report barometer is 105.6 Board of Health Bronchitis carcinoma cent cistern of barometer colored females Congestion of lungs Daily mean barometer Daily mean wet Day of month death-rate Deaths from cancers deaths occurring dew point Diarrhoeal diseases Diphtheria Diseases of circulatory Diseases of digestive District of Columbia drainage ending June 30 Exposed bulb F st females Colored males G st Garfield Memorial Hospital H st houses I.-Showing total number Le Droit Park less Malarial fever males females Colored mean wet bulb mercuric chloride movement of wind number of deaths p. m. Total movement Percentage to total Phthisis Phthisis pulmonalis Pleurisy Pneumonia Potomac formation privies Relative mean humidity Scarlet fever solution suburb TABLE I.-Showing total TABLE X-Continued Total by color Total deaths total mortality Typho-malarial fever Typhoid fever violence White Female White males females خان خان خان
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Page 23 - There are houses, there are groups of houses, there are whole villages, there are considerable sections of towns, there are even entire and not small towns, where general slovenliness in everything which relates to the removal of refuse matter...
Page 20 - Outer garments of wool or silk, and similar articles, which would be injured by immersion in boiling water or in a disinfecting solution : (1) Exposure to dry heat at a temperature of 110° C.
Page 20 - Soiled underclothing, bed linen, etc. : 1. Destruction by fire, if of little value. 2. Boiling for at least half an hour. 3. Immersion in a solution of mercuric chloride of the strength of 1 : 2000 for four hours.
Page 23 - ... and other filth. And with this state of things, be it on large or on small scale, two chief sorts of danger to life arise; one, that volatile effluvia from the refuse pollute the surrounding air and everything which it contains ; the other, that the liquid parts of the refuse pass by soakage or leakage into the surrounding soil, to mingle there of course in whatever water the soil yields, and in certain cases thus to occasion the deadliest pollution of wells and springs.
Page 20 - Eags collecting for the paper-makers during the prevalence of an epidemic should be disinfected before they are compressed in bales, by — 1. Exposure to super-heated steam — twenty-five pounds pressure — for ten minutes.
Page 19 - The most useful agents for the destruction of spore-containing infectious material are — 1. Fire. Complete destruction by burning. 2. Steam under pressure. 105° C.
Page 20 - Mercuric chloride, 1 : 1000 ; recommended only for the hands, or for washing away infectious material from a limited area, not as a bath for the entire surface of the body. For the Dead.
Page 20 - ... a sheet thoroughly saturated with : 1. Chloride of lime in solution, 4 per cent. 2. Mercuric chloride in solution, 1 : 500.
Page 20 - ... with soap and hot water; finally throw open doors and windows and ventilate freely. FOR MERCHANDISE AND THE MAILS.* The disinfection of merchandise and of the mails will only be required under exceptional circumstances; free aeration will usually be sufficient. If disinfection seems necessary, fumigation with sulphur dioxide, as recommended for woolen clothing, etc., will be the only practicable method of accomplishing it.
Page 23 - ... sometimes lying bare on the common surface ; sometimes unintentionally stored out of sight and recollection in drains or sewers which cannot carry them away; sometimes held in receptacles specially provided to favour accumulation, as privy-pits, and other cesspools for excrement and slop-water, and so-called dust-bins receiving kitchen refuse and other filth.