Public health reports (1881). v. 1, 1881, Volume 1Surgeon General, 1881 |
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12 deaths acute lung diseases acute pulmonary diseases aggregate population annual death rate annual ratio April 26 bronchitis Bulletin caused one death caused three deaths caused two deaths Cerebro-spinal fever cholera croup deaths from cholera deaths from diphtheria deaths from enteric-fever deaths from phthisis deaths from scarlet-fever deaths from small-pox deaths from yellow-fever December 28 Diarrhoeal diseases diph diphtheria Diphtheria caused eight deaths ended December 28 ended February 22 ended January 18 ended March 15 Enteric-fever caused Erysipelas February 22 four deaths Havana.-Week ended January 11 Marine-Hospital Service Measles Morgan City National Quarantine Act nine deaths nual Ocean Springs OFFICE SURGEON-GENERAL Orleans past week phthisis plague pneumonia Port Gibson Public Health refugees Scarlet-fever caused seven deaths six deaths Small-pox caused theria Total deaths typhus-fever United States Marine-Hospital vessel week ended November week ended October week ended yesterday weeks ended December weeks ended February weeks ended March Whooping-cough WOODWORTH yellow-fever occurred
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Page 82 - Treasury, necessary to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States...
Page 82 - ... contagious disease, shall enter any port of the United States or pass the boundary line between the United States and any foreign country...
Page 108 - Surgeon-General of the Marine Hospital Service to frame rules and regulations, and to execute said act, and to give notice to Federal and State officers of the approach of infected vessels, and furnish said officers with weekly abstracts of consular sanitary reports, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed.
Page 82 - President, fo.- the protection of the health of the people of the United States against the danger referred to: Until further orders no vessel from any port of the Black Sea or the Sea of Azof, conveying any rags, furs, skins, hair, feathers, boxed or baled clothing or bedding, or any similar articles liable to convey infection, nor any vessel from any port of the Mediterranean or Red seas having on board such articles coining from southern Russia, shall enter any port of the United States...
Page 108 - An act to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States," approved April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, as requires consular officers or other representatives of the United States at foreign ports to report the sanitary condition of and the departure of vessels from such ports to the Supervising Surgeon-General of the Marine Hospital Service ; and so much of said act as requires the...
Page 82 - ... plague' which devastated the old world in past centuries. "Because, therefore, of the danger which attaches to rags, furs, &c., as carriers of infection, the following regulations are framed, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury and subject to the approval of the President, for the protection of the health of the people of the United States against the danger referred to: "Until further orders, no vessel from any port of the...
Page 82 - On the -2 .'id, two men showed decided symptoms of yellow fever, and on the recommendation of the surgeon, the vessel was headed northward. The sick men were isolated, and measures adopted for improving the hygienic condition of the vessel and crew. The surgeon reported that he believed the infection to be confined to the hull of the ship, especially to the unsound wood about the berth deck, all the cases but one having occurred within a limited area; and that while the "Plymouth...
Page 81 - ... the thirty years in question, varying in intensity in different parts of the province and in different years. The appearance of the disease was coincident with the breaking out of the rebellion against the imperial government, which was longer maintained, and suppressed with more violent measures, in Yunnan than in any of the other provinces; conditions which undoubtedly contributed greatly to its virulence, as did also the superstitious practice of refusing to bury the dead, who are exposed...
Page 81 - Plymouth:" On November 7th, last, four cases of yellow fever occurred on board the vessel, while lying in the harbor of Santa Cruz. These were removed to the hospital on shore, and the ship sailed for Norfolk. Three mild cases occurred during the voyage, and the " Plymouth " was ordered to Portsmouth, N.
Page 82 - Secretary of the Treasury, and subject to the approval of the President, for the protection of the health of the people of the United States against the danger referred to : Until further orders, no vessel from any port of the Black Sea, or the Sea of Azof, conveying any rags, furs, skins, hair, feathers, boxed or...