Epidemics, Plagues and Fevers: Their Causes and PreventionStanford, 1892 - 508 pages |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Epidemics, Plagues and Fevers; Their Causes and Prevention Francis Albert Rollo B. 1849 Russell Aucun aperçu disponible - 2016 |
Epidemics, Plagues and Fevers; Their Causes and Prevention Francis Albert Rollo Russell Aucun aperçu disponible - 2012 |
Epidemics, Plagues and Fevers: Their Causes and Prevention (1892) Francis Albert Rollo Russell Aucun aperçu disponible - 2008 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
acid affected animals anthrax appears attacked bacillus bacteria blood body boiling cattle cause cent cesspools cholera clean cleanliness clothing cold communication consumption contain cows crowded cultivated dairy damp dangerous death-rate deaths diarrhoea diphtheria disinfection districts drainage drains drinking-water dust dysentery England epidemic erysipelas especially experiments exposed fatal favourable filth foul germs glanders ground hospital houses human Hygiene hyphae immunity important increase incubation India infection infectious disease influenza inoculation isolation large number London maladies malaria marshes measles medical officer Micro-organisms microbes milk mortality occurred outbreak overcrowding patient persons phthisis places plague pneumonia poison polluted population prevalence prevention probably produced Public Health quarantine rabies Report Sanitary Record scarlet fever sewage sewers ship small-pox soil sore throat spores spread suffering supply surface susceptible temperature tetanus tion towns tuberculosis tuberculous typhoid fever typhus vaccination ventilation villages virulence virus water-supply yellow fever zymotic disease
Fréquemment cités
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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,...
Page 39 - ... of filth : as where there is outflow, leakage or filtration from sewers, house-drains, privies, cesspools, foul ditches...