Epidemics, Plagues and Fevers: Their Causes and Prevention

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Stanford, 1892 - 508 էջ

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Էջ 92 - ... that on the contrary, the bacilli of tuberculosis are present and active in a very large proportion of cases in the milk of cows affected with tuberculosis, but with no discoverable lesion of the the udder.
Էջ 482 - There are houses, there are groups of houses, there are whole villages, there are considerable sections of towns, there are even entire and not small towns, where general slovenliness in everything which relates to the removal of...
Էջ 427 - York, with all the above, relapsing fever is also mentioned, " and any disease of a contagious, infectious, or pestilential character, which shall be considered by the health officer dangerous to the public health.
Էջ 38 - ... the effluvia which those matters evolve ; secondly, that the infective power of choleraic discharges attaches to whatever bedding, clothing, towels and like things, have been imbued with them, and renders...
Էջ 40 - ... again and again. 7. It may fairly be believed that, in considerable parts of the country, conditions favourable to the spread of cholera are now less abundant than at any former time...
Էջ 39 - ... it imparts to enormous volumes of water the power of propagating the disease. When due regard is had to these possibilities of indirect infection, there will be no difficulty in understanding that even a single case of Cholera, perhaps of the slightest degree, and perhaps quite unsuspected in its neighbourhood, may, if local circumstances co-operate, exert a terribly infective power on considerable masses of population.
Էջ 482 - ... and other filth. And with this state of things, be it on large or on small scale, two chief sorts of danger to life arise; one, that volatile effluvia from the refuse pollute the surrounding air and everything which it contains ; the other, that the liquid parts of the refuse pass by soakage or leakage into the surrounding soil, to mingle there of course in whatever water the soil yields, and in certain cases thus to occasion the deadliest pollution of wells and springs.
Էջ 40 - It is important for the public very distinctly to remember that pains taken and costs incurred for the purposes to which this Memorandum refers cannot in any event be regarded as wasted. The local conditions which would enable cholera, if imported, to spread its infection in this country are conditions which day by day, in the absence of cholera, create and spread other diseases ; diseases which, as being never absent from the country...
Էջ 41 - The local conditions which would enable Cholera, if imported, to spread its infection in this country, are conditions which day by day, in the absence of Cholera, create and spread other diseases : diseases which, as being never absent from the country, are, in the long run, far more destructive than Cholera : and the sanitary improvements which would justify a sense of security against any apprehended importation of Cholera would, to their extent, though Cholera should never re-appear in England,...
Էջ 39 - ... of filth : as where there is outflow, leakage or filtration from sewers, house-drains, privies, cesspools, foul ditches...

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