Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Preventive Medicine, Volume 8

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George Frank Butler, William Augustus Evans
Year Book Publishers., 1916 - 382 pages
 

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Page 315 - If the child is critically ill, the parent or guardian must be notified and permitted to visit daily while child is dangerously ill. Information relative to the patient's condition should be given out at the Information Desk in each hospital, or by telephone in response to telephone inquiry from the parent or guardian. 10. In fatal cases of poliomyelitis, the parents must be allowed to view the body, if desired. The coffin must subsequently be sealed with the Health Department seal but burial within...
Page 330 - Insurance measure proposed for National or State Governments : 1. Insured persons. — Every person engaged in a gainful occupation and earning less than a specified annual income, say $1,000, should be entitled to the benefits provided under the law. Every person earning more than the specified annual income should be allowed to qualify for the same benefits or greater benefits according to annual income. 2. Funds. — To be provided jointly by contributions from employees and employers ; the Government...
Page 262 - Estimated number of days of sickness on the German basis of 8.5 days per person per annum . . . 284,750,000...
Page 240 - Department standards are as follows: 1. The total number of bacteria developing on standard agar plates, incubated 24 hours at 37° C, shall not exceed 100 per cubic centimeter; provided, that the estimate shall be made from not less than two plates, showing such numbers and distribution of colonies as to indicate that the estimate is reliable and accurate. 2. Not more than one out of five 10 cc. portions of any...
Page 319 - Provided, that in the event of acute anterior poliomyelitis occurring on a dairy farm, the live stock, the properly sterilized milk utensils and delivery outfit may be removed to some noninfected premises and the milking done and milk cared for and sold from such other premises by persons other than those of the household of the person so affected, upon obtaining permission to do so from the local health authorities or the State Board of Health. Whenever a case of acute anterior poliomyelitis shall...
Page 320 - Whenever a case of acute anterior poliomyelitis shall occur on premises connected with any store, such store shall be quarantined until the case has been terminated by removal, recovery or death, and the premises are thoroughly disinfected, provided, however, that if the premises are so constructed that the part in which the case exists can be and is effectively sealed, under the supervision of the local health authorities, from the store, and provided further that the employees and all other persons...
Page 330 - ... specified annual income, say $1,000, should be entitled to the benefits provided under the law. Every person earning more than the specified annual income should be allowed to qualify for the same benefits or greater benefits according to annual income. 2. Funds. — To be provided jointly by contributions from employees and employers ; the Government to appropriate for the expenses of supervision and administration. 3. Benefits. — The following benefits should be provided : (a) Cash benefits....
Page 318 - ... hours of such knowledge of such known or suspected case coming to his notice, report the same in writing or by telephone to the local health authorities.
Page 321 - ... has been obtained. House animals such as cats, dogs or any other household pets and all other animals or fowls must be strictly excluded from the infected building, house or flat, as the case may be, during the entire period of quarantine. Any such animals which have been in contact with the patient must be subjected to a thorough disinfecting bath before removal from the infected building, house or flat, and must not be permitted to reenter the same. Such animals must be confined in an outbuilding....
Page 316 - Public Health Service, or by the State health officer, or by an officer authorized by the State health authority. III. The committee disapproves quarantine by one State against another State, or quarantine by one community against another community in the same State. It is believed that the Federal Government, through the US Public Health Service, can perform all the duties of notification and certification required in interstate relations in case of unusual prevalence of poliomyelitis; and that...

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