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Page 317 - i RETURN PUBLIC HEALTH LIBRARY TO— ^ 42 Warren Hall 642-2511 LOAN PERIOD 1 SEMESTER 4 2 5 3 6 ALL BOOKS MAY BE RECALLED AFTER 7 DAY ALL JOURNALS ARE NON-RENEWABLE Return to desk from which borrowed DUE AS STAMPED BELOW UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY FORM NO. DD26-7, 9m,
Page 139 - To secure privacy, efficient lighting and ventilation are absolutely disregarded, the zenana or women's apartments being usually the most insanitary part of the house. No wonder that tuberculosis, which thrives in damp, dark, airless corners, plays havoc in the zenanas.
Page 118 - daylight, for a pellet of sputum to become sufficiently dried to be capable of being reduced to dust. 8. It is easier to reduce to dust sputum dried on dusty surfaces than on glazed surfaces.
Page 119 - probably depending upon the intensity of the light."' "The danger of spreading infection is greatest when sputum is deposited indoors, especially in dark ill-ventilated places. In these conditions we have seen that tubercle bacilli may retain their vitality and power to cause the disease as long as 309 days.
Page 119 - It is evident from these experiments that there is an appreciable period after the complete drying of the sputum. during which some of the tubercle bacilli contained therein remain alive. In the case of direct sunlight the time is approximately
Page 118 - When exposed to electric light the bovine bacilli were found alive for 74 days, but dead after 100 days. 7. It took three to four hours in direct sunlight, and three to four days in
Page 145 - connected with reproduction, which from one point of view may be regarded as the most important of human functions, should be allowed to take place under the most favourable conditions possible. Surely it would seem to be of fundamental importance that these processes should be delayed until
Page 147 - The practices which are found to exist are founded upon three sets of ideas, firstly, the religious belief that a woman at the time of child-birth is ceremonially unclean, more defiling in fact