Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of New Hampshire for the Fiscal Year Ending...Parson B. Cogswell, Public Printer, (etc), 1885 |
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Page 273 - Commonwealth, thousands of lives are lost which might have been saved; that tens of thousands of cases of sickness occur, which might have been prevented; that a vast amount of unnecessarily impaired health, and physical debility, exists among those not actually confined by sickness; that these preventable evils...
Page 227 - Association comprises over eight hundred members, all devoted, officially or otherwise, to its declared purpose — the advancement of sanitary science and the promotion of organizations and measures for the practical application of public hygiene.
Page 244 - 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. Much has been done already in some States, but much remains which should receive immediate attention. Where it can be done, State sanitary...
Page 242 - Inasmuch as the Dominion of Canada is equally interested with the United States in protecting itself and the United States from the importation of dangerous diseases, we suggest that Congress take such measures as will bring about concerted action with the Dominion and the British Government by which the 'consuls of this country or of England at foreign ports shall examine and take such action as they may deem effective, and notify the authorities of such government as has authority over any port...
Page 201 - In diseases like small-pox and scarlet fever, in which the infectious agent is given off from the entire surface of the body, occasional ablutions with Labarraque-s Solution, diluted with twenty parts of water, will be more suitable than the stronger solution above recommended.
Page 241 - 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...
Page 244 - Health respecting the inspection of travellers, disinfection of effects, vehicles, etc. " Health officers and inspectors appointed by State or provincial boards of health, should, in addition to other sanitary work, see that the localities have set apart, erected, or planned to be set apart, or erected, structures which shall possess the sanitary requirements of an isolation hospital. But as regards all necessary work by local boards of health, most State and provincial boards of health have printed...
Page 244 - ... strictly isolated. All infective material from these and from any subsequent cases should be destroyed in such manner as to stamp out the disease. Intelligent sanitary precautions beforehand, and scientific disinfection and treatment in the presence of the disease, should take the place of the necessary cruelties of a panic. In case any city or town is infected, the same principles of isolation should in general be applied to the city as to the infected individual. Intercourse with other cities...
Page 167 - Should the cholera appear in any place in this country, the health authorities of the place should have immediate notice of the first •cases in order that prompt action may be taken for complete isolation and disinfection.
Page 202 - ... a little water, set it on fire by hot coals or with the aid of a spoonful of alcohol, and allow the room to remain closed for twenty-four hours. For a room about ten feet square, at least...