Report of the Health OfficerU.S. Government Printing Office, 1890 |
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1,000 inhabitants 14th st 7th st AGE OF DECEDENT Angina pectoris Annual death Annual death-rate Annual Report aörta Atrophy of liver Board of Health Bright's disease Bronchitis Cancer causes Cemetery cent Colored males Congestion of lungs Day of month death rate deaths occurring diarrheal diseases digestive organs Diphtheria Diseases of digestive disinfection District of Columbia E street ending June 30 etc.-Continued F st Fifteenth street G st Grand total H st H street hæmorrhage heart Homicides I.-Showing the total John July June 30 kidney Laryngismus Mount Vernon Square N. Y. ave Ninth street number of deaths Order Pennsylvania avenue Percentage Pistol wound Pleurisy Pneumonia Pyelitis Rheumatism Scarlet fever Seventeenth street Seventh street sex and color Spinal Splenitis Suicides Total by color Total deaths Total developmental diseases Total diseases total mor total mortality Trismus Typhoid fever uterus violence William wound of head zymotic diseases ཋ ཋ སྐ
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Page 17 - Disinfection of Excreta, etc. — The infectious character of the dejections of patients suffering from cholera and from typhoid fever is well established ; and this is true of mild cases and of the earliest stages of these diseases as well as of severe and fatal cases. It is probable that epidemic dysentery, tuberculosis, and perhaps diphtheria, yellow fever, scarlet fever and typhus fever may also be transmitted by means of the alvine discharges of the sick. It is, therefore, of the first importance...
Page 19 - It will be advisable to take the same precautions with reference to privy vaults into which the excreta of yellow fever patients have been thrown, although we do not definitely know that this is infectious material. Disinfection may be accomplished either with corrosive sublimate or with chloride of lime. The amount used must be proportioned to the amount of material to be disinfected. Use one pound of corrosive sublimate for every...
Page 18 - ... Bad odors may be neutralized, but this does not constitute disinfection in the sense in which the term is here used. These bad odors are, for the most part, an indication of want of cleanliness, or of proper ventilation ; and it is better to turn contaminated air out of the window, or up the chimney, than to attempt to purify it by the use of volatile chemical agents, such as carbolic acid, chlorine, etc., which are all more or less offensive to the sick, and are useless so far as disinfection...
Page 19 - ... this is infected, and disinfection should be resorted to as soon as the fact is discovered, or whenever there is reasonable suspicion that such is the case. It will be advisable to take the same precautions with reference to...
Page 19 - ... in the room. T?o secure complete combustion of the sulphur it should be placed in powder or in small fragments, in a shallow iron pan, which should be set upon a couple of bricks in a tub partly filled with water, to guard against fire. The sulphur should be thoroughly moistened with alcohol before igniting it.
Page 18 - ... are not destroyed by the presence in the atmosphere of any known disinfectant in respirable quantity. Bad odors may be neutralized, but this does not constitute disinfection in the sense in which the term is here used. These bad odors are, for the most part, an indication of want of cleanliness or of proper ventilation, and it is better to turn contaminated air out of the window or up the chimney than to attempt to purify it by the use of volatile chemical agents, such as carbolic acid, chlorine,...
Page 18 - Solution, diluted with twenty parts of water, will be more suitable than the stronger solution above recommended. In all infectious diseases the surface of the body of the dead should be...
Page 18 - In the sick-room no disinfectant can take the place of free ventilation and cleanliness. It is an axiom in sanitary science that it is impracticable to disinfect an occupied apartment ; for the reason that disease germs are not destroyed by the presence in the atmosphere of any known disinfectant in respirable quantity.
Page 18 - Mix well and leave in vessel for at least ten minutes before throwing into privy-vault or water-closet. The same directions apply for the disinfection of vomited matters. Infected sputum should be discharged directly into a cup half full of the solution. STANDARD SOLUTION, No. 2.
Page 19 - It should be applied— the diluted solution— in the proportion of one gallon to every four gallons (estimated) of the contents of the vault. If chloride of lime is to be used, one gallon of Standard Solution No. 1 will be required for every gallon (estimated) of the material to be disinfected. All exposed portions of the vault, and the wood work above it should be thoroughly washed down with the disinfecting solution.