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002 Very slight analysis Annual Reports attended August Bangor Board of Health cause chemical cholera circulars clean contagious diseases danger death diphtheria disinfected drain drinking water epidemic excreta feet deep filter filth filtrate Four nuisances German measles glanders health officer Heavy trace houses were placarded inebriates inebriety Infected houses isolated Limington measles and whooping milk nuisance removed nuisance was abated nuisance was removed nuisances reported nuisances were abated nuisances were removed nuisances were reported October organic matter outbreak patient person physician pipe places PLANTATION pneumonia poison precautions premises prevent privy vault public health quarantine sanitary condition scarlet fever Secretary September September 27 sewage sewer sewerage sick sink drainage sink spout slight trace small-pox soakage soil Solution sources of pollution South Berwick spread Spring sterile taken theria Three nuisances tion town typhoid fever typhoid fever occurred unusually prevalent vaccination village water supply whooping cough
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Page 83 - ... with intent to sell or exchange, or exposes or offers for sale or exchange, adulterated milk, or milk to which water or any foreign substance has been added...
Page 78 - ... a fine of not less than $25 and not more than $500, or by imprisonment in any county jail for a period of not more than six months, or by both fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.
Page 93 - Convention of the National Association of officials of Bureaus of Labor Statistics in the United States, held at Denver, Colo., May 24-28, 1892.
Page 9 - State, in regard to the location, drainage, water supply, disposal of excreta, heating and ventilation of any public institution or building; they shall from time to time examine and report upon works on the subject of hygiene for the use of the schools of the State; they shall have general oversight and direction of the enforcement of the statutes respecting the preservation of health ; and they shall, in the month of January, make report to the Legislature of their doings.
Page 59 - Children and parents from other houses should be warned ; and, if they needlessly and obstinately persist in coming, they should be driven away. Neither the nurse nor any other person should eat or drink anything in the sick room or anything which has been there. Food which the patient has left should be burned. Cats and dogs should be kept from the sick chamber, or better, out of the house, for their fur can easily carry the infection. These animals, as well as some others, sometimes have diphtheria,...
Page 83 - When milk shall, by the gravimetric analysis be found to contain over eightyeight per cent, of water, it shall be deemed prima facie evidence that said milk has been watered, and when milk by the analysis aforesaid, shall be found to contain less than twelve per cent, of solids, and less than three per cent, of fat, it shall be deemed, prima facie, milk from which cream has been taken...
Page 187 - ... duty, to order the suppression and removal of nuisances and conditions detrimental to life and health found to exist within the limits of its jurisdiction...
Page 81 - In the months of March and October, annually, each and every person who is employed in a paper mill, shall be examined by the local board of health as to whether he or she is successfully and sufficiently protected by vaccination and the local board of health shall in all cases be the judges of the sufficiency of the protection by vaccination.
Page 58 - ... barren ground for their development. Diphtheria is a preventable disease. Proper preventive measures are almost invariably followed by the limitation of the disease to the first case or cases. When diphtheria gets away from the primary cases and makes its escape upon the community, somebody is tO blame. The sooner we accept this as a sanitary maxim, the sooner we shall begin to do our duty as individuals and as communities.
Page 77 - Cholera or other dangerous contagious disease; and for this purpose he may require the person in charge of any vessel or public vehicle other than a railway car to stop such vessel or vehicle at any place, and he may require the conductor of any railway train to stop his train at any station or upon any sidetrack for such time as may be necessary.