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Published and distributed under the auspices of the International Bureau of the American Republics, 1911 - Public health

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Page 147 - California, Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and 54 cities in non-registration States.
Page 8 - First. That there have been no deaths nor new cases of plague or cholera for five days after the isolation, death, or discharge of the last case of plague or cholera; in the case of yellow fever the period shall be eighteen days, but each Government reserves the right to prolong this period against...
Page 139 - To impress upon presidents, deans, preceptors, and teachers the necessity of exercising their influence on students in reference to the communicability of syphilis and gonorrhea, and to inculcate a morale of protection among the college fraternities.
Page 130 - States the interests of the public health would be promoted by a conference of said service with state or territorial boards of health, quarantine authorities, or state health officers, the District of Columbia included...
Page 139 - ... keeping open free night dispensaries and maintenance of special dispensaries and hospitals for these diseases, (j) Advocacy of temperance on account of the relationship between alcoholism and venereal diseases, (k) Advocacy of personal cleanliness and venereal prophylaxis. (/) Advocacy of early marriage.
Page 2 - Program of the Fifth International Sanitary Conference of the American Republics. To BE HELD IN SANTIAGO DE CHILE FROM THE STH TO THE 12iH OF NOVEMBER, 1911.
Page 134 - All steerage passengers arriving at ports in the United States from ports or places infected with cholera shall be subjected to bacteriological examination and shall not be admitted to entry until it has been determined by said examination that they are not cholera-bacillus carriers.
Page 134 - CARRIERS. To diminish the danger from cholera bacillus carriers, steerage passengers coming from ports or places where cholera prevails and arriving on vessels upon which cholera has appeared, shall be detained 10 days for observation unless after five days' detention they are found not to be bacillus carriers.
Page 2 - Discussion of hygiene of sea traffic, having in view specially systematic measures for the deratization of ships. 8. Discussion of hygiene of tramway and railroad traffic. By direction of the International Sanitary Bureau of the American Republics. WALTER WYMAN, Chairman. As requested in the communication of Dr. Walter Wyman, Chairman of the International Sanitary Bureau, the Director General of the Pan American Union has addressed a letter to the diplomatic representatives of the countries interested...
Page 124 - ... discoveries with respect to the transmission of yellow fever and malaria, besides the mosquito bite. 13. Organization in each country represented at this Convention, of a commission of three physicians or health officers to act as delegates of the International Sanitary Bureaus of Washington or Montevideo, and to form part of the International Sanitary Information Committee of the American Republics.

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