Transactions of the Section on Preventive and Industrial Medicine and Public Health of the American Medical Association1916 - Public health |
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Page 183 - ... than diphtheria or scarlet fever, but these amounted in all to only 5 per cent, of the total cases of typhoid reported, a very different story from the statements of from 10 to 25 per cent, frequency of typhoid infection by milk that can be found in various places in recent public health literature. Septic sore throat is par excellence the milk-borne •disease, but its occurrence is fortunately relatively rare. When it does occur, it is nearly always in epidemic form and is of more serious consequences....
Page 168 - Section 143 of the Sanitary Code be and the same is hereby amended and made to read as follows: Sec. 142. Food: To be Protected from Dust, Dirt, Flies, or Other Contamination. — No food intended for human consumption shall be kept, sold, offered for sale, displayed, or transported, unless protected from dust, dirt, flies, and other contamination...
Page 124 - It is believed that this can be done in three ways: (1) By providing efficient staffs of medical officers in the Federal and State health departments to carry into effect the regulations issued by the central governing boards or commissions; (2) by providing a fair and sufficient incentive for the active cooperation of the medical profession; and (3) by providing for a close cooperation of the health-insurance system with State, municipal, and local health departments and boards.
Page 128 - insurance is a provision made by a group of persons, each singly in danger of some loss, the incidence of which can not be foreseen, that when such loss shall occur to any of them, it shall be distributed over the whole group" Insurance is evidently a method well adapted to mitigate the destructive effects of illness.
Page 65 - But when a company surgeon realizes that for greater efficiency an employer has the right to demand a healthful, physically and mentally normal working force; and that the employee would be, and is, justified in demanding a healthful, sanitary working place, uncontaminated by diseased fellow employees ; and that business principles, as well as a spirit of humanitarianism, demands...
Page 126 - Annual Conference of State and Territorial Health Officers with the United States Public Health Service, held at Washington, DC, May 13 and 15, 1916.
Page 107 - In New York City last year 67,000 children failed to be promoted to higher grades because of absence, 80 per cent, of which can be laid to defective teeth, and it costs New York $1,037,696 to duplicate a year's schooling to these absentees.
Page 124 - It is believed that this can be done along three lines: (1) By providing efficient staffs of medical officers in the federal and state health departments, to carry into effect the regulations issued by the central governing boards or commissions; (2) by providing a fair and sufficient incentiv for the activ co-operation of the medical profession; and (3) by providing for a close co-operation of the health insurance system with state, municipal, and local health departments and boards.
Page 177 - In order definitely to declare any disease milk borne, however, it is necessary to carry out, by epidemiologic and laboratory means, a careful search for and detection of the disease, or a past history of the disease, in a person or the persons handling the milk at any point and a thoroughgoing exclusion of all other probable channels of...
Page 142 - Make State officials the referees. The referee is then not considered as one of the medical corps. Because, just as soon as you make the man who decides whether a patient is sick, also decide whether he shall go to work, you incur the expenses and put a possibility of undue influence between the patient and the physicians which is LI;'-'. and can not be ruled out.