Florida Health Notes, Volume 11State Board of Health, 1916 |
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100,000 Population Total animals Annual Report April Atlanta August Augustine baby Board of Health Bulletin Cattle Tick cent CERTIFIED LIVE colored conference with city Daytona death rate December DeFuniak Springs diphtheria dipping vats examination Fernandina flies Fort Pierce Gainesville Health Notes Health of Florida Hog Cholera Hookworm horses Imhoff Tanks infection inspection of school inspection of town Investigation July Key West Kissimmee Lakeland leaflet LIVE STOCK malaria March Miami milk mules MUNICIPALITIES Negro Total White Number of Deaths number persons receiving Ocala office of Assistant Orlando Palatka pellagra Pensacola physician Plant City plumbing POPULATION Number Population Total White Poster Prevention privy Public Health quarantine Reprint Routine Sanitary inspection sanitation scarlet fever screening law serum sewage smallpox surface closets Tallahassee tank Tarpon Springs Tick Eradication tion Total number persons Total White Negro Treatment tuberculosis typhoid fever Veterinary Wauchula West Tampa White Negro Total
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Page 253 - The department shall consult with and advise the officers of towns and persons having or about to have systems of water supply, drainage or sewerage as to the most appropriate source of water supply and the best method of assuring its purity, or as to the best method of disposing of their drainage or sewage with reference to the existing and future needs of other towns or persons which may be affected thereby.
Page 228 - Stanch hearts of mine beat fast at each new star In the Nation's flag. Keen eyes of mine foresaw her greater glory: The sweep of her seas, The plenty of her plains, The man-hives in her billion-wired cities. Every drop of blood in me holds a heritage of patriotism. I am proud of my past. 7 am an American. I am an American My father was an atom of dust, My mother was a straw in the wind, To his serene majesty.
Page 220 - Four per cent of the inhabitants of certain sections of the South have malaria? The United States Public Health Service has trapped 615,744 rodents in New Orleans in the past 18 months?
Page 79 - ... statement contained in the annual report of the Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service. The Service now has five trachoma hospitals in the three States of Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia, and so great has been the number of applicants for treatment that a waiting list...
Page 243 - If the human race would learn to keep the unwashed hand away from the mouth many human' diseases would be greatly diminished. We handle infectious matter more or less constantly, and we continually carry the hands to the mouth. If the hand has recently been in contact with infectious matter, the germs of disease may in this way be introduced into the body. Many persons wet their fingers with saliva before counting money, turning the pages of a book, or performing similar acts. In this case the process...
Page 80 - Eighteen thousand and sixteen people were examined, seven per cent being found to have trachoma. Similar inspections in certain localities of Arizona, Alabama, and Florida resulted in finding the disease present in from three to six children out of every hundred. Periodic examination of school children for the disease and the exclusion of the afflicted from the public schools, are two of the recommendations the Public Health Service lays emphasis upon. One of the special features of the trachoma...
Page 272 - Summon a physician at once and immediately notify the health officer of the presence of the disease. If the disease is present in the community, medical aid should be sought whenever a child is sick, no matter how light the illness; many cases of infantile paralysis begin with a slight indisposition. Should the illness prove to be infantile paralysis, isolate the patient, place a competent person in charge, and reduce all communication with the sickroom to a minimum.
Page 303 - Public Health Service in connection with studies of rural school children showed that 49.3 per cent had defective teeth, 21.1 per cent had two or more missing teeth, and only 16.9 per cent had had dental attention. Over 14 per cent never used a tooth brush, 58.2 per cent used one occasionally and only 27.4 per cent used one daily. Defective teeth reduce physical efficiency.
Page 83 - FLYTRAPS. Unless flytraps are used to capture the flies as they emerge from their breeding places, as already described, such measures are ordinarily only excuses for failing to observe the more important cleaning-up process; the entrapped flies have ordinarily already had ample opportunity to carry filth and germs and deposit their eggs. However, traps may be useful adjuncts to other more permanent...
Page 445 - ... year by immigration, or intake from foreign lands. At each port of landing immigration inspectors record each arrival and tell us his or her nationality, age, sex, destination, and how much money each one brings. But the National Government can not go into the States and cities and establish registration offices and tell us how many children enter each State by birth. This work must be done by each State separately. We have no national bookkeeping to account for the ebb and flow of human life...