Biennial Report of the State Board of Health of California, Volume 9State of California Department of Public Health., 1886 - California 1892/1894-1894/1896 include also, The Transactions of the second and fourth annual sanitary conventions held at San José, April 16, 1894 and Los Angeles, April 20, 1896. |
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acid agent alcohol Angeles average Board of Health Bright's disease Bronchitis California cause cent chloride cholera chronic climate coast condition County Hospital diarrhoea diphtheria disease germs disinfection drinking effect epidemic Erysipelas experience fact fatal feet Fracture Guaymas hand at commencement Health Officer hundred inches INDIGENT SICK Treated infected infectious diseases infectious material July June liver location of hospital malarial Mazatlan means mercuric chloride mineral months reported mortality mountains Name and location name and Post Number of months observed occurred organic Panama Panama Railway patients persons Phthisis physician Physician's name Placer County Pneumonia poison Post Office address present prevailing quarantine rain rainfall recorded Remaining under treatment rheumatism Sacramento San Bernardino San Diego San Francisco sanitary scarlet fever Secretary Shasta County Signal Service smallpox solution spores springs sulphur Syphilis temperature thousand tion Total admitted Total on hand town trichinosis typhoid fever vaccination winds yellow fever
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Page 58 - State, and shall take cognizance of the interests of health and life among the citizens generally. They shall make sanitary investigations and inquiries respecting the causes of disease, especially of epidemics, the source of mortality and the effects of localities. employments, conditions, and circumstances on the public health ; and...
Page 34 - Analyst shall be held in all the Courts of this State as prima facie evidence of the properties of the articles analyzed by him.
Page 242 - The injurious consequences which are likely to result from such misapprehension and misuse of the word disinfectant will be appreciated when it is known that recent researches have demonstrated that many of the agents which have been found useful as deodorizers, or as antiseptics, are entirely without value for the destruction of disease germs.
Page 242 - The object of disinfection is to prevent the extension of infectious diseases by destroying the specific infectious material which gives rise to them. This is accomplished by the use of disinfectants. There can be no partial disinfection of such material ; either its infecting power is destroyed or it is not. In the latter case there is a failure to disinfect.
Page 54 - It shall be the duty of the Board of Trustees, Council, or other corresponding Board, of every incorporated town and city of this State, to establish, by ordinance, a Board of Health for such town or city, to consist of five persons...
Page 242 - disinfection" is used in a much broader sense. Any chemical agent which destroys or masks bad odors, or which arrests putrefactive decomposition, is spoken of as a disinfectant. And in the absence of any infectious disease, it is common to speak of disinfecting a foul cesspool, or badsmelling stable, or privy vault.
Page 242 - of the same class as that to which disease germs belong, and the agents which destroy the latter also destroy the bacteria of putrefaction, when brought in contact with them in sufficient quantity, or restrain their development when present in smaller amounts. A large number of the proprietary
Page 34 - Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows :— Section 1. The governor of the state...
Page 60 - That any person convicted of a willful violation of any of the provisions of the preceding section shall be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the court.
Page 254 - No. 1 with nine parts of water — one gallon in ten. This solution is preferable for general use, especially during the prevalence of epidemics, on account of the possibility of accidents from the poisonous nature of Standard Solution No. 4. When diluted as directed this solution may, however, be used without danger from poisoning through the medium of clothing immersed in it, or by absorption through the hands in washing. A poisonous...