Annual report of the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service of the United States for the fiscal year ... 18831883 |
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Page 48 - The President of the United States is hereby authorized, in case of a threatened or actual epidemic, to use a sum not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in aid of State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same.
Page 46 - The eutlemic homes of cholera and yellow fever are the fields which give the greatest promise of satisfactory results to well-directed and energetic sanitary measures, and to this end an international sentiment should be awakened, so strong as to compel the careless and offending people to employ rational means of prevention.
Page 45 - ... be adopted and administered for each country or place, separately, modified in particular cases by taking into account the liability of the port to infection, the period of incubation of the disease, the length of time consumed in the voyage, and the measures enforced by the vessel en route. 3. In some countries the detention of passengers and crews of ships hailing from infected ports is warranted, but for such time only as is necessary to complete the period of incubation of cholera or yellow...
Page 46 - ... vessel ; but in no instance should passengers or sailors be held for observation on board an infected vessel, and such vessel should not be detained beyond the period required for inspection and thorough disinfection and cleansing. 4. Recognizing the fact that the morbific causes of infectious diseases may sometimes elude the most vigilant sanitary supervision of shipping, the importance of wisely-directed internal sanitary measures can scarcely be over-estimated.
Page 45 - From what has preceded, the following conclusions seem to be justified : 1. The supervision of ocean travel ought to be directed to securing good sanitary conditions for vessels at all times, out of as well as in port.
Page 22 - Babylon, making its course to the south, the palaces lie the one on the east, and the other on the west side of the river; both built at exceeding costs and expense.
Page 45 - ... the voyage, and the measures enforced by the vessel en route. 3. In some countries the detention of passengers and crews of ships hailing from infected ports is warranted, but for such time only as is necessary to complete the period of incubation of cholera or yellow fever, counting from the date of departure from an infected port or landing from an infected vessel ; but in no instance should passengers or sailors be held for observation on board an infected vessel," and such vessel should not...
Page 46 - ... morbific causes of infectious diseases may sometimes elude the most vigilant sanitary supervision of shipping, the importance of wisely-directed internal sanitary measures can scarcely be over-estimated. 5. As far as America is concerned, it is desirable that prompt and authoritative information should be had of the shipment of passengers or goods from districts infected with cholera or yellow fever, thereby insuring the thorough disinfection of infected articles. 6. The...
Page 20 - GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC ATTACK ON THE REBELS AT DOVER, TENNESSEE. No. 14.] OFFICE MISSISSIPPI SQUADRON, Cairo, Illinois, February 9, 1863. SIR: I have the honor to enclose herewith a copy of a report of Lieutenant Commander Le Roy Fitch, United States navy, giving his account of his attack on the rebels who had surrounded and were attacking the post at Dover, Tennessee. I had been informed that the enemy were attacking that post, but I felt no uneasiness in regard to...
Page 51 - ... their own households, as well as for other obvious reasons, they should invite the leaders of all the Negro women's societies to a conference, get them interested in the movement, and have a Clean-up Day which would leave the city clean. They expected perhaps a dozen Negro women, and seventy came. The mayor of the city and the president of the Board of Health addressed the gathering, and then the women talked, white and black. "And you'd have been as astonished as we were if you'd heard those...