American Journal of Pharmacy, Volume 57Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science., 1885 |
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Page 221 - In view of the present threatening aspect of Asiatic cholera, and the constant danger from other communicable diseases occurring at foreign ports having commercial relations with the United States, we urge upon congress to provide for the appointment and maintenance...
Page 221 - ... inter-State, State and local. So far as relates to State and local boards of health, their organization and activities are greater than ever before ; but it must be admitted that after cholera has been introduced into a country, inland quarantines are not easily and successfully maintained, although efforts in this direction are then advisable. In view of the threatened introduction of cholera into this country during the coming year, and the...
Page 413 - ALLEN. Commercial Organic Analysis. A Treatise on the Modes of Assaying the Various Organic Chemicals and Products Employed in the Arts, Manufactures, Medicine, etc., with Concise Methods for the Detection of Impurities, Adulterations, etc.
Page 222 - ... diseases at foreign ports and places, and of the departure of dangerous vessels for the United States and Canada, to all State and local health authorities in the country which may be interested in the same. We further recommend, in case of those foreign ports which have no consular agents of this country or no telegraphic communication with this country, and which are liable to transmit pestilence through commercial intercourse, that one or more medical officers be chosen to visit such ports...
Page 221 - There are three essential factors to the prevalence of cholera in this country as an epidemic, — (i) the importation of the disease by means of ships more or less directly from its only 'place of origin in India;' (2) local unsanitary conditions favorable to the reception and development of the disease ; (3) persons sick with the disease in some of its stages, or things infected by such sick...
Page 222 - Believing that the importation of cholera into this country has usually attended the presence of immigrants from infected countries, we therefore recommend that all such immigrants be prevented from landing at our ports until such time as the danger of the introduction of cholera by them shall have passed. The inspection and quarantine service inaugurated by the National Board of Health, and set forth in the paper by Dr.
Page 222 - To give notice by telegraph, when practicable, of the existence or appearance of any of the above-named diseases to some constituted authority in this country ; to give notice of the departure of any vessel, known or suspected to be infected, for any port in the United States, and, whenever requested by the master of any vessel about to load or leave for this country, to inspect thoroughly such vessel in all her parts, and also her cargo, her crew and passengers ; to use such cleansing and disinfection...
Page 223 - National legislature the sum of $500,000, to be used, or as much thereof as may be needful, in case of a cholera invasion, in stamping out the disease from the infected localities, and in preventing its spread from State to State. The removal of local unsanitary conditions favorable to the development of cholera is the especial work of State and local boards of health.
Page 637 - MEIGS. Infant Feeding and Milk Analysis. The Examination of Human and Cow's Milk, Cream, Condensed Milk, etc., and Directions as to the Diet of Young Infants. .50 MONEY.
Page 443 - Only two chemical disinfectants were recommended, not because there were none others trustworty, but because it was sufficient to recommend two of those most generally useful. Indeed, Dr. Koch seems to have considered carbolic acid alone sufficient, but in deference to the work of the Committee on Disinfectants of The American Public Health Association, made no objection to including chloride of lime with carbolic acid in the recommendation, upon the representations of Dr. Sternberg. The aqueous...