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Page 29 - Every such local board of health shall guard against the introduction of contagious and infectious diseases by the exercise of proper and vigilant medical inspection and control of all persons and things arriving in the municipality from infected places, or which from any cause are liable to communicate contagion.
Page 14 - We have boiled the hydrant water, We have sterilized the milk; We have strained the prowling microbe Through the finest kind of silk. We have bought and we have borrowed Every patent health device, And at last the doctor tells us That we've got to boil the ice.
Page 23 - State, and shall make, or cause to be made, sanitary investigations and inquiries respecting the causes of diseases, especially the endemics and epidemics and the means of prevention, the sources of mortality, and the effects of localities, employments, habits and circumstances of life on the public health.
Page 30 - They may, subject to the provisions of the sanitary code, prohibit and prevent all intercourse and communication with or use of infected premises, places and things, and require, and if necessary, provide the means for the thorough purification and cleansing of the same before general intercourse with the same or use thereof shall be allowed.
Page 54 - These dogs come back and lap the milk-pail, lick the empty milk vessels which are never properly cleaned ; and can there be doubt that the milk is thus infected ? Where this danger exists in a dairy it is practically unlimited. Rats and mice infest the ordinary dairy ; they get into the milk and the milk vessels. These animals also have their diseases, and, therefore, the element of danger and disease from these pests must be acknowledged. The poultry around the farm are sometimes very numerous,...
Page 15 - Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road, ' "* Which to discover we must travel too.
Page 53 - That the society, thoroughly believing tuberculosis to be a systemic and contagious disease, urge upon the government...
Page 44 - Of all the domesticated animals known, none is so intimately or closely related to the human race as the cow. We are veritable parasites on this animal. We milk her as long as she will give milk, and we drink it; then we kill her, eat her flesh, blood, and most of the viscera; we skin her, and clothe ourselves with her skin ; we comb our hair with her horns, and fertilize our fields with her dung, while her calf furnishes us with vaccine virus for the prevention of small-pox.
Page 30 - ... who cannot otherwise be provided for ; to prohibit and prevent all intercourse and communication with or use of infected premises, places and things ; and to require, and, if necessary, to provide the means for the thorough purification and cleansing of the same before general intercourse therewith, or use thereof, shall be allowed.
Page 50 - ... infection somewhat more definitely by the statement that in any herd, even in those extensively infected, only a small percentage of the diseased animals, namely, those which are in an advanced stage, or such as have the disease localized from the very beginning in the udder, or the uterus, or the lungs, are actively shedding tubercle bacilli. It is these that are doing most, if not all, of the damage by scattering broadcast the virus. Disease of the udder is particularly dangerous, because the...