Prevention of Communicable Disease
Prevention of Communicable Disease
TYPHOID FEVER-THE SICK ROOM-TUBERCULOSIS OR CONSUMP- TION-SMALLPOX - VACCINATION - CHICKENPOX - MALARIA - YELLOW FEVER-HOOKWORM…
Prevention of Communicable Disease: Typhoid
TYPHOID FEVER Typhoid Fever (Enteric Fever, Abdominal Typhus) is an infectious disease caused by a specific germ known as the typhoid…
Prevention of Communicable Disease: Infection
Modes of Infection. - There is a common opinion among the laity that typhoid fever is contracted from foul drains and other things which…
Prevention of Communicable Disease: Water
But this, unfortunately, is by no means the case. or Infection from Water Supply.- Investigation has shown that most epidemics of the…
Prevention of Communicable Disease: Hence
The consequent expense to this small community in loss of wages and care of the sick was estimated as in excess The annual losses of…
Prevention of Communicable Disease: Milk
Infected Milk Supply. -Milk is a very common and dangerous source of infection, because it is what medical men call an excellent "culture…
Prevention of Communicable Disease: Keep
The sick room should have its windows always open day and night, and there should be an open fire if possible, otherwise recovery will be…
Prevention of Communicable Disease: Remove
To Remove Soiled Bed Clothes.- Move the patient to one side of the bed as near the edge as possible, and loosen the sheet beneath him at…
Prevention of Communicable Disease: Anti-typhoid
Anti-typhoid vaccination should always be done by a competent physician. The infection often gives rise to slight fever and some painful…
Prevention of Communicable Disease: Anopheles
Prevention. The germ or parasite which causes malaria can be communicated to man only by the bite of the Anopheles mosquito. This species…
Prevention of Communicable Disease: Mosquito
The malarial mosquito bites and then goes back to some dark corner a Anopheles b Culex (Malarial Mosquito) (Common Mosquito) Courtesy State…
Prevention of Communicable Disease: Yellow
If the precautions herein detailed were properly carried out everywhere for even a few months, malaria would practically cease to exist…
Prevention of Communicable Disease: Breathing
Consumption's allies-avoid them and you are safeguarding against the disease. water. If the germ finds its way into the lungs it rapidly…
Prevention of Communicable Disease: Consumption
Impure air and deficient sunlight favor the development of the bacillus. For this reason a consumptive is more frequently met with in the…
Prevention of Communicable Disease: Smallpox
SMALLPOX AND CHICKENPOX Smallpox is an acute, contagious, infectious disease characterized by the well-known eruption of small boils or…
Prevention of Communicable Disease: Jenner
Smallpox is now a rare malady and is rapidly vanishing. This great change has been wrought in a single century by the discovery of…
Prevention of Communicable Disease: Vaccination
The practice of vaccination up to a comparatively recent date was not always surrounded by proper sanitary safeguards. The vaccine was…
Prevention of Communicable Disease: Inoculation
When to Vaccinate. Every child should be vaccinated during the first year and again at the age of puberty, i. e., twelve or fourteen years…
Prevention of Communicable Disease: Chickenpox
In scarlet fever the eruption appears on the second day and gradually fades after two or three days. Chickenpox (Varicella). This is a mild…
Prevention of Communicable Disease: Quarantine
Quarantine. - As soon as the case is known to be smallpox, convey the patient if practicable to a hospital or pesthouse, or isolate in a…
Prevention of Communicable Disease: Service
HOOKWORM DISEASE This disease has existed from time immemorial, but especial attention has been directed to it in the United States in…
Prevention of Communicable Disease: Epsom
Preliminary Treatment.-"On Saturday evening give a dose of Epsom salts. The reason is this: The hookworms are surrounded by more or less…
Prevention of Communicable Disease: Treatment
Repetition of Treatment.-"The foregoing treatment is repeated once a week, preliminary treatment Saturday evening and thymol on Sunday…
Prevention of Communicable Disease: Asiatic
FOREIGN DISEASES A small class of communicable diseases sometimes occur in the United States as the result of infection from foreign parts…
Prevention of Communicable Disease: Death
Bubonic Plague (Black Death).- This historic disease which destroyed upwards of 50 per cent of the population of England in the fourteenth…
Prevention of Communicable Disease: Leprosy
Leprosy.-Leprosy is a communicable disease of the skin occurring very rarely in the United States, fewer than three hundred cases having…
Prevention of Communicable Disease: Rabies
Rabies (Hydrophobia). This is a specific communicable disease which affects chiefly the canine race, although all warm-blooded animals…