Public health reports (1881). v. 25 pt. 2 no. 26-52, 1910, Volume 25, Part 2, Issues 26-52Surgeon General, 1911 |
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Acting Assistant Surgeon Bills of health Bombay Calcutta causes cholera Clair County County June 1-30 County May 1-31 crew Date diphtheria disease disinfected district ended June 25 epidemic examined bacteriologically Health and Marine-Hospital Hongkong human plague including typhoid fever India July 1-Aug July 16 July 9 June 1-Aug June 1-July 31 June 1-Sept June 11 June 25 Libau Logan County Madras Manaos Marine-Hospital Service Marion County Mass measles milk mortality table Mus alexandrinus Mus musculus Mus norvegicus Mus rattus Naples number of deaths Odessa Ohio Orleans Palermo Petersburg Place poliomyelitis Population port Present Province quarantine Ranches inspected Rangoon Received During Week Received from June Remarks Reports Received Russia San Francisco scarlet fever Sept smallpox SMALLPOX-Continued steamship Straits Settlements theria Total number tuberculosis typhoid fever UNITED STATES-Continued Week ended week ended August Week ended July week ended October week ended September YELLOW FEVER
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Page 1172 - AN ACT To regulate the sale of viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products in the District of Columbia, to regulate interstate traffic in said articles, and for other purposes.
Page 1595 - ... completely solves the problem. The fecal material becomes fermented in the water and gradually liquefies ; the addition of excreta naturally raises the level of the liquid, and the excess flows into the effluent tank, where it is protected from insects by the cover and by the film of oil. This effluent may be allowed to collect in the tank until it reaches the level of the connecting pipe, when it may be safely disposed of in various ways to be discussed later.
Page 1650 - ... 2. Epidemic poliomyelitis presents unusual difficulties in the recognition of even typical cases in their early stage and of abortive cases in all stages. 3. It will be difficult to estimate the effect of preventive measures, since the disease often fails to spread in communities where conditions seem most favorable for an epidemic.
Page 1594 - ... transverse connecting pipe; it is held in place by a rod, which passes through eyes or rings fastened to the box, and by which the board is raised and lowered. The liquefying tank is filled with water up to the point where it begins to trickle into the effluent tank. As an insect...
Page 1172 - ESTABLISHMENTS LICENSED FOR THE PROPAGATION AND SALE OF VIRUSES, SERUMS, TOXINS, AND ANALOGOUS PRODUCTS.
Page 1282 - Trani they washed clothing in vessels used for drawing water from a well, and in due course there followed cases of choleriform disease, the nature of which was not immediately recognized, and which were regarded by the authorities as ' grave gastrointestinal disturbances.
Page 1122 - Steerage passengers and crew from districts not infected with cholera, shipping at a port infected with cholera, unless passed through without danger of infection and no communication allowed between such persons and the infected locality, should be treated as those in the last paragraph.
Page 1303 - These operations are conducted under two laws. One is the national quarantine act of 1893, already referred to, which contains practically the same provisions for interstate as for maritime quarantine. The other is the annual law passed by Congress appropriating an "epidemic fund," which contains a provision that it may be used in aid of state and local boards of health in the enforcement of their quarantine regulations, as well as those of the national service — to be used, however, only against...
Page 1207 - The state board of health recommends the quarantine of all cases for at least two weeks after the beginning of the disease and thorough disinfection of infected premises after the termination of the disease. It is a...
Page 1595 - The effluent has amounted to about twelve gallons of a manageable fluid. It has not been found necessary to add water to the liquefying barrel since the apparatus was put into operation. Although the period in question included the hottest part of summer, the odor, when compared with that of the average privy, has been negligible. It is thus seen that this device appears to meet the following requirements: 1. It solves the fly and mosquito problems, so far as the privy is concerned. 2.