Public health reports (1881). v. 4, 1889, Volume 4Surgeon General, 1890 |
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16 principal town 28 great towns ABSTRACT OF SANITARY aggregate number aggregate population annual rate approved April 29 ballast board of health cholera Council Bluffs deaths from yellow deaths were registered diarrhoea diarrhoea and dysentery diphtheria disinfection dysentery enteric fever epidemic erysipelas Estimated popula Florida fumigated health officer hospital including croup including diphtheria including enteric fever infected Iowa Island July 27 June 29 Key West lowest rate Mass month MORTALITY TABLE Munich November number of deaths October OFFICE SUPERVISING SURGEON-GENERAL Ohio physician places port Published in accordance quarantine quarantine station rate was recorded registered in 28 respiratory organs caused sanitary condition Sanitary Reports received scarlet fever Sept September sickness small-pox theria tion Total deaths typhoid fever Typhus fever U. S. MARINE-HOSPITAL SERVICE United States consul vessels Wales.-The deaths registered week ended WEEKLY ABSTRACT whooping cough whooping-cough yellow fever
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Page 449 - ... contagious disease, shall enter any port of the United States, or pass the boundary line between the United States and any foreign country...
Page 102 - Any health officer, guard or other employe who shall knowingly and wilfully disobey or in any manner knowingly neglect or fail to perform any duty imposed upon him by the provisions of quarantine laws, rules and regulations of this State or who shall disobey knowingly an order emanating from superior authority shall be fined upon conviction by a court of competent jurisdiction in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars; provided, that in the meaning of this article the Governor and State Health...
Page 61 - ... punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than three nor more than six months...
Page 95 - ... which they shall judge best for the safety of the inhabitants, by removing such sick or infected person to a separate house...
Page 449 - ... provides that no vessel or vehicle coming from any foreign port or country where any contagious or infectious disease exists, or any vessel or vehicle conveying persons...
Page 422 - SEC. 3. That no person shall visit or attend any public or private school, or place of public assemblage, or appear on the public streets or in the parks while affected with scarlet fever or diphtheria, and any adult person, parent or guardian of a minor convicted of having knowingly violated the provisions of this act, shall, upon conviction, forfeit and pay a sum not less than five nor more than fifty dollars ; and it shall be the duty of physicians while in attendance upon cases of scarlet fever...
Page 178 - That it is not directly inherited, and 3. That it is acquired by the direct transmission of the tubercle bacillus from the sick to the healthy, usually by means of the dried and pulverized sputum floating as dust in the air. The measures, then, which are suggested for the prevention of the spread of tuberculosis are : 1.
Page 132 - All vessels arriving at this port with sickness on board, or having had same during voyage, will, at all seasons of the year, no matter from what port, either American or foreign, anchor at the Quarantine Station, and there remain until released by order of the Board of Health.
Page 61 - Tallahassee, upon a day to be named by the governor, not more than ten days from the date of their appointment. It shall be the duty of said board, at their first meeting, to elect one of their number as president of said board. At the same meeting it shall be the duty of said board to designate and employ a physician, who shall be an expert in the diagnosis of yellow fever, smallpox, cholera, and other infectious...
Page 422 - That any person who shall knowingly make, sign, or deliver any false report or certificate herein provided for, upon conviction thereof in the police court of said District, shall be fined not less than five nor more than fifty dollars, and, in default of payment thereof, be committed to jail for not less than one nor more than twenty days. SEC. 8.