Annual report of the Board of Health of Detroit. 1882Board of Health, 1882 |
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Page 109 - The most striking of all evidence is, perhaps, that derived from the small-pox hospitals themselves. Here the protective influence of vaccination is seen and proved in a manner beyond all cavil. At Highgate, during an experience of forty years, no nurse or servant having been re-vaccinated has ever contracted...
Page 187 - The keeper of any livery or other stable shall keep the stable and stable-yard clean, and shall not permit, between the first day of June and the first day of November, more than two cart-loads of manure to accumulate in or near the same at any one time.
Page 187 - Any violation of the provisions of this ordinance shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars...
Page 27 - Asiatic cholera, dysentery, para-typhoid fever, or typhoid fever, to give detailed instructions to the nurse or other person in attendance in regard to the disinfection and disposal of the excreta.
Page 83 - Let every man and wife be their own sanitarians and make their house a centre of sanitation. Let in the sun; keep out the damp ; separate the house from the earth beneath; connect the house with the air above ; once, nay twice, a year hold the Jewish Passover, and allow no leaven of disease to remain in any corner or crevice ; let the house cleanse itself of all impurities as they are produced ; eat no unclean thing ; come back to the...
Page 59 - ... pestilences ; and in respect to them we have learned much that is accurate, and, I fear, much that is inaccurate. What is accurate is, however, the most important. We know the number of these diseases ; we know that their number is limited, that it is confined to thirty at the most, and practically to little over half thirty. We know that the members of this class of diseases have different periods of incubation, that is to say, of period intervening between the reception of the poison and the...
Page 165 - The said corporation shall be liable to pay all damages that shall be sustained by any persons in their property by the taking of any land, water, or water-rights, or by the constructing of any aqueducts, reservoirs, or other works for the purposes aforesaid.
Page 212 - January one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, use any such furnace which shall not be constructed so as to consume or burn its own smoke, or shall so negligently use any such furnace...
Page 80 - ... to deadly contagious disease by concealing it in his own house. Personal liberty to give smallpox to somebody else had better be abridged as soon as possible. ' Personal liberty to send scarlet fever into a school with your child is rather diabolical than beneficent. Personal liberty to infect a church with a diphtheria corpse is tempting Providence to start an epidemic.
Page 80 - In some instances doctors have prematurely reported recovery. The law of duration in contagious diseases is too well known to allow such heedlessness to escape notice and rebuke. It is sometimes disagreeable to supplement the mental and moral defects of a portion of the profession by the terror of criminal law, but faithful sanitary administration requires it. 2. At first the people objected to having their houses placarded, as a violation of personal liberty. A little argument convinced reasonable...