Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts, Volume 21Wright & Potter., 1890 |
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adulterated Albu algæ ALGE AMMONIA Analyses of Ice Analysis of Water Animal Forms appearance average BACTERIA Biological Analysis Block Board of Health Boston bronchitis Brook Bubbly cause cent Chemical Analysis Chlorine Color Connecticut River corn fodder County Deaths from respiratory December diphtheria disinfection epidemic examinations feet filtered filtration Fixed Residue Fungi Holstein ice field ice house infected influenza intermittent fever January Lawrence Loss on Ignition Ludlow reservoir malaria Massachusetts meal measles milk Mills minoid months mortality Nitrites NITROGEN number of deaths Number of samples observations obtained oleomargarine Percentage persons physicians pneumonia Pond population present prevailed quarts shorts ratio REMARKS reported RESIDUE ON EVAPO respiratory diseases River sanitary scarlet-fever sewage sewerage sewers slight Snow ice Springfield Street Sudbury River taken ill theria thick tion Total deaths total number typhoid fever WATER AND ICE water supply Week ending whole number winter
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Page l - ... or any other disease dangerous to the public health, he shall immediately give notice thereof to the selectmen or board of health of the town ; and if he refuses or neglects to give such notice, he shall forfeit for each offence not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars SECT.
Page l - When a physician knows that a person whom he is called to visit is infected with small-pox...
Page lv - Michigan, 1871, as follows: (1734). SEC. 43. Whenever any householder shall know that any person within his family is taken sick with the smallpox or any other disease dangerous to the public health...
Page lv - ... or during a period of two weeks after the death, recovery, or removal of such sick person; and any pupil coming from such household shall be required to present, to the teacher of the school the pupil desires to attend, a certificate, from the attending physician or board of health, of the facts necessary to entitle him to admission in accordance with the above regulation.
Page 285 - The sitting height is the vertical distance between the top of the head and the surface upon which the individual is seated. The...
Page lix - The boards of health in the several cities and towns shall cause a record to be kept of all reports received in pursuance of the preceding sections and such record shall contain the names of all persons who are sick, the localities in which they live, the diseases with which they are affected, together with the date and the names of the persons reporting any such cases.
Page 3 - ... sewage, having regard to the present and prospective needs and interests of other cities, towns, corporations, firms or individuals which may be affected thereby. It shall also from time to time consult with and advise persons or corporations engaged or intending to engage in any manufacturing or other business, drainage or...
Page lxii - ... that the virus is present, whether there is disease of the udder or not; 3, that there is no ground for the assertion that there must be a lesion of the udder before the milk can contain the infection of tuberculosis...
Page lxii - ... that on the contrary, the bacilli of tuberculosis are present and active in a very large proportion of cases in the milk of cows affected with tuberculosis, but with no discoverable lesion of the the udder.
Page 314 - Thus, while we gain no positive new light in the etiology of epidemic influenza in this series of examinations, we are able, from the results of the studies on the pneumonia which accompanies it, to establish the probability that the pneumonia, although apt to be irregular in its course and atypical in its morphology, is usually due to the same bacterial agency as is at work in the ordinary acute lobar pneumonia. How much this may be further complicated by the frequent presence of the pyogenic bacteria,...