Report of the Health Officer

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1886

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Стр. 23 - 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 refuse matter...
Стр. 20 - Outer garments of wool or silk, and similar articles, which would be injured by immersion in boiling water or in a disinfecting solution : (1) Exposure to dry heat at a temperature of 110° C.
Стр. 20 - Soiled underclothing, bed linen, etc. : 1. Destruction by fire, if of little value. 2. Boiling for at least half an hour. 3. Immersion in a solution of mercuric chloride of the strength of 1 : 2000 for four hours.
Стр. 23 - ... 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.
Стр. 20 - Eags collecting for the paper-makers during the prevalence of an epidemic should be disinfected before they are compressed in bales, by — 1. Exposure to super-heated steam — twenty-five pounds pressure — for ten minutes.
Стр. 19 - The most useful agents for the destruction of spore-containing infectious material are — 1. Fire. Complete destruction by burning. 2. Steam under pressure. 105° C.
Стр. 20 - Mercuric chloride, 1 : 1000 ; recommended only for the hands, or for washing away infectious material from a limited area, not as a bath for the entire surface of the body. For the Dead.
Стр. 20 - ... a sheet thoroughly saturated with : 1. Chloride of lime in solution, 4 per cent. 2. Mercuric chloride in solution, 1 : 500.
Стр. 20 - ... with soap and hot water; finally throw open doors and windows and ventilate freely. FOR MERCHANDISE AND THE MAILS.* The disinfection of merchandise and of the mails will only be required under exceptional circumstances; free aeration will usually be sufficient. If disinfection seems necessary, fumigation with sulphur dioxide, as recommended for woolen clothing, etc., will be the only practicable method of accomplishing it.
Стр. 23 - ... sometimes lying bare on the common surface ; sometimes unintentionally stored out of sight and recollection in drains or sewers which cannot carry them away; sometimes held in receptacles specially provided to favour accumulation, as privy-pits, and other cesspools for excrement and slop-water, and so-called dust-bins receiving kitchen refuse and other filth.

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