Reports of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council and Local Government Board [Great Britain]. 1866H.M. Stationery Office, 1867 |
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acid ages algide symptoms appeared APPENDIX August blood Board Bristol Buchanan Buglawton cause cesspools chemical cleansing collapse colour common lodging-houses condition congested contained courts cramps deaths from cholera diar diarrhoea died Diphtheria discharges disinfected drainage drains East Districts East London epidemic epithelium fatal feet females filth fluid gallons gravel Hospital houses ileum infection intestine July less liquid livid London Clay matter Medical Officer metropolis middens mortality nuisances Nuisances Removal observed occurred Officer of Health Old Ford Outbreaks of Cholera outfall pale parish patient paving persons Phthisis pipes population privies promoting Public Health pulse pulseless pumping quantity Radcliffe reaction removed reservoir Respiration Results rice-water river river Lea sanitary Scarlatina Sept sewage sewerage sewers sexes soil spectrum Street subsoil surface taken temperature Thudichum tion town typhoid fever typhus urea urine various Outbreaks vomiting vomiting and purging water supply waterclosets week Whooping-cough workhouse yards
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Page 227 - England shows itself so little contagious, in the sense in which small-pox and scarlatina are commonly called contagious, that, if reasonable care be taken where it is present, there is almost no risk that the disease will spread to persons who nurse and otherwise closely attend upon the sick.
Page 232 - The washing and lime-whiting of uncleanly premises, especially of such as are densely occupied, should be pressed with all practicable despatch. 8. Overcrowding should be prevented. Especially where disease has begun, the sick-room should, as far as possible, be free from persons who are not of use to the patient.
Page 228 - ... and conduits of filth, and to the effluvia which those excremental matters evolve ; that, if the infective material, by leakage or soakage from drains or cesspools, or otherwise, gets access, even in the smallest quantity, directly or through porous soil, to wells or other sources of drinking water, it can infect, in the most dangerous manner, very large volumes of the...
Page 306 - ... matters evolve; that if the infective material, by leakage or soakage from drains or cesspools, or otherwise, gets access even in the smallest quantity, directly or through porous soil, to wells or other sources of drinking-water, it can infect, in the most dangerous manner, very large volumes of the water...
Page 218 - ... may take charge of that person for bringing him before a Board. (2) When information is given to an officer-in-charge of a police station about any neglected...
Page 33 - It cannot be too distinctly understood that the person who contracts cholera in this country is ipso facto demonstrated with almost absolute certainty to have been exposed to excremental pollution; that...
Page 232 - This latter fact is not recognised so generally as it should be ; and ignorance of it has probably baffled many inquiries in cases where water services have in truth been the means of spreading disease. If, unfortunately, the only water which for a time can be got should be open to suspicion of dangerous organic impurity, it ought at least to be boiled before it is used for drinking, but then not to be drunk later than 24 hours after it has been boiled.
Page 222 - ... and shall enter in a book to be kept for the purpose the facts as to all cases he may meet with, and shall without delay give, or take the proper steps for causing to be given, all necessary medical assistance to the sick.
Page 233 - It is always to be desired that the people should, as far as possible, know what real precautions they can take against the disease which threatens them, what vigilance is needful with regard to its early symptoms, and what (if any) special arrangements have been made for giving medical assistance within the district. For the purpose of such information printed hand-bills or placards may usefully be employed, and in cases where danger is great...
Page 232 - Wherever there is accumulation, stink, or soakage of house refuse, or of' other decaying animal or vegetable matter, the nuisance should as promptly as possible be abated, and precaution should be taken not to let it recur. Especially...