Transactions of the Section on Preventive Medicine and Public Health of the American Medical Association at the ... Annual Session, Volume 61American Medical Association Press, 1910 - Medicine, Preventive |
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amebiasis antitoxin attention bacilli bacteria Baltimore birth Board of Health breakwater Buffalo Bureau c.c. pig carriers cause cent Chicago child contagious disease court culture dairy danger death-rate deaths developed diagnosis diphtheria and scarlet disinfection epidemic examination existence fact factor farm females glanders H. W. Hill health department health officer hookworm hospital human hygiene important infant mortality infection infectious diseases inspection instances instruction intake investigation J. N. Hurty laboratory lesions males medical inspector method midwife milk milk-supply mother municipal Niagara River observation occurred ophthalmia neonatorum organs pasteurized patient pellagra persons physician placard poliomyelitis practice preventive medicine privy problem public health quarantine rates read a paper reported rôle sanitary scarlet fever secondary Seneca Egbert sick smallpox Smoke's Creek symptoms syphilis temperature theria tion tonsils tuberculosis typhoid fever W. A. Evans Washington
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Page 234 - They shall have charge of all matters pertaining to quarantine: and shall have authority to make such rules and regulations, and such sanitary investigations as they may from time to time deem necessary for the preservation or improvement of public health, and it shall be the duty of all police officers, sheriffs, constables, and all other officers and employes of the State, to enforce such rules and regulations, so far as the efficiency and success of the Board may depend upon their official co-operation.
Page 276 - Our annual mortality from tuberculosis is about 150,000. Stopping three-fourths of the loss of life from this cause and from typhoid and other prevalent diseases would increase our average length of life fifteen years.
Page 17 - The accurate collection, tabulation and analysis of records of births, still-births, deaths, marriages, divorces, and sickness may be said to constitute the bookkeeping of humanity. The bookkeeping of dollars is very important, but of far greater importance is the bookkeeping of those events in the lives of human beings which are fundamental to an understanding of the movements of mankind, and which are also fundamental to the practical application of hygiene, to secure higher efficiency, longer...
Page 236 - due process of law" generally implies and includes actor, reus, judex,, regular allegations, opportunity to answer, and a trial according to some settled course of judicial proceedings . . . yet, this is not universally true.
Page 241 - It may be that it is the obnoxious thing in its mildest and least repulsive form, but illegitimate and unconstitutional practices get their first footing in that way, namely, by silent approaches and slight deviations from legal modes of procedure.
Page 213 - We have found the study of the transmission of smallpox in rural districts to be of great interest by reason of the fact that the time, place, and manner of contact can be worked out with ease and certainty. Diphtheria and scarlet fever, studied case by case in rural districts, should throw great and much-needed light on the transmission of these diseases. It may not be amiss at this point to call attention to the value of the case method of study of infectious diseases in rural work. A...
Page 38 - If such a plan as this were placed on a purely scientific basis and carried out by good business methods and all the companies pulled together for the common good, I should expect a decrease in death claims of more than 1 per cent. And a decrease in death claims of 1 per cent would mean that the companies would save more than eight times as much as they expended or would make a net saving of more than seven times the expense — which would be about a million and a half dollars a year. The examples...
Page 24 - ... of Indiana, dying, left his valuable farm in trust to his unthrifty son, to go to his granddaughter on her twenty-first birthday. The girl had been told the date of her birth and always celebrated as her birthday the annual recurrence of the same. However, when she claimed she was twenty-one, and then claimed her inheritance, her father denied her age, saying she was only nineteen.
Page 231 - To do all acts and make all regulations which may be necessary or expedient for the promotion of health or the suppression of disease.
Page 352 - Army, and that in my opinion he is free from all bodily defects and mental infirmity, which would, in any way, disqualify him from performing the duties of a soldier.