Report of the Health OfficerU.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 - Public health |
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5-year period Abscess accident accidental acute age of deaths Annual average arranged with reference average for 5-year births Bronchitis calendar year 1918 Cancer Cause of death causes of death-Continued cent Charles Chas CHIG CHIG UNIV Cholemia circulatory system Clas classified with reference clinic Colored cost Day of month Diphtheria Diseases of bones Diseases of nervous District of Columbia fiscal year 1919 GAN UNIV George health department health officer Henry Hospital influenza inspection inspector James John Male Marasmus Measles Meningitis MICHI UNIV Monthly death rate neonatorum Nonvenereal diseases Pellagra Percent percentage of deaths Placenta previa Pneumonia Puerperal Pyelitis Pyloric stenosis reference to race reported RSITY UNIV samples Scarlet fever SITY Smallpox stillbirths Street NW suspected to contain TABLE 1b.-Showing tion Total deaths Total diseases total number tuberculosis Typhoid fever UNIV GAN UNIV MIC UNIV UNIV MICHI UNIV RSITY UNIVE UNIV W.
C. Total White Whooping cough William
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Page 32 - To disinfect each and every article used by or about the patient and all excreta from the patient, and such other articles, if any, as have been specially exposed to infection, before the removal of such article or excreta from said room or rooms if practicable, and otherwise as soon thereafter as is practicable.
Page 31 - Ordered, That, under the provisions of section 7 of the act of Congress approved June 19, 1878, entitled "An act to create a revenue in the District of Columbia by levying a tax upon all dogs therein, to make such dogs personal property, and for other purposes...
Page 32 - person in charge of any patient," as used in this act, shall be held to mean, first, each physician in attendance on, called in to visit, or examining a patient, unless called in to visit or examining the patient solely as a consultant to a physician already in attendance; second, in the absence or disability of any...
Page 33 - ... dollars for the first offense, and for each subsequent offense by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars...
Page 32 - To appear in school, church, store, or place of amusement, or in any other place of public assemblage. (c) To enter a public conveyance, except a vehicle designated by the health officer for the conveyance generally of persons suffering from minor contagious diseases, or a vehicle designated by the health officer for the conveyance of the particular case. (d) To go or to be carried from place to place over the public streets without authority from the health officer, except that in case of an emergency,...
Page 48 - Dairy farms.—A comparative statement showing the number and location of dairy farms from which milk is sold in the District of Columbia, the number of cattle on such farms, and the frequency of farm inspections, for the fiscal years is submitted.
Page 33 - ... shall make such investigations into the nature and origin of cases of diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, and typhoid fever, occurring in the District of Columbia, as in his judgment may be necessary to prevent the spread of said diseases, and shall cooperate with persons having charge of patients suffering from such diseases as he deems needful for the prevention of the spread thereof. And in the discharge of each and every of the...
Page 32 - ... meningitis, or typhoid fever, if said person has power and authority so to do, to adopt each and every of the following precautions to prevent the spread of such disease: (a) To isolate the patient immediately upon the discovery of the nature of the disease, as thoroughly as is practicable, from all persons who are not suffering from the same disease and who are not necessarily in attendance upon the patient, and to maintain such isolation until the recovery or the death of the patient, except...
Page 32 - Columbia who is suffering from diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis, or typhoid fever, immediately after becoming aware of the existence of such disease, shall send to the health officer of said District a certificate, written in ink, signed by such person, stating the name of the disease, the name, age, sex, and color of the person suffering therefrom, and the school which he or she has attended, if any, and setting forth by street and...
Page 35 - APPENDIXES TO THE REPORT OF THE HEALTH OFFICER OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The publication of these reports as appendixes to the report of the health officer is not to be construed to mean that the opinions and recommendations set forth in them have been adopted by the health department.