Annual Report of the Provincial Board of Health of Ontario Being for the Year ..., Issue 11The Board, 1893 |
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Page 89 - We forget that old proverb, that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure, — that that is the truest wisdom which advises the overcoming of the beginnings of evil.
Page 79 - With larger volumes (of water) the pollution (from 2.5 to 7.0 cubic feet per second per 1,000 persons) is so small as to be clearly admissible from the standpoint of the offensiveness of the water." Then he adds : " In a stream used for domestic water supply it cannot be said, with our present knowledge, that any degree of dilution will make the water entirely safe for use.
Page 74 - Stcite, together with what is known of the relation of typhoid fever to sewage-polluted drinking water, are the strongest grounds for concluding that, even with the smallest amount of organic impurity in the water, as shown by chemical analysis, the disease germs of this disease are able to pass and do pass from one city to the other in the waters of this river.
Page 73 - The Lowell and Lawrence outbreak in Massachusetts in 1890 is a similar instance, although the pollution, especially of the Lawrence water, had for years given these towns an unenviable notoriety in the matter of typhoid prevalence. The following extract from the annual report of the Massachusetts State Board of Health for...
Page 6 - Indeed, as has been well said, "The whole object of sanitary legislation is to so increase the resistive power as to incase the body in that which shall be proof against an attack." This is on the positive side; but on the negative it may be said yet more truly "that the object is to remove those influences or conditions which may be called the attacking forces.
Page 29 - Similarly, according to Hirsch, " Smith has ascertained for one thousand persons treated for consumption at the Brompton hospital, that seventy per cent of them had been in the habit of spending their time in overcrowded, hot and dusty places indoors.
Page 53 - ... say from six to eight feet. We cannot close this report without expressing our obligations to the Messrs. Beardmore, Mr. Storey, the farmers and citizens generally for their active assistance in getting all the facts available in this matter. EE KITCHEN. Report by JD Macdonald, Esq., MD, Hamilton. To the Chairman and Members of the Provincial Board of Health : GENTLEMEN, — On Friday, the 22nd July, pursuant to advice from Dr. Bryce, Secretary of the Provincial Board of Health, I, with other...
Page 67 - That in the opinion of this Conference it is desirable that the Federal and Provincial authorities co-operate in the work of collecting, compiling and publishing the vital statistics for the Dominion.
Page 79 - ... said report to be transmitted to the minister of the department to which the said Provincial Board of Health is attached, and to the clerk of the Municipal Council, and the Secretary of the local Board of Health of the district interested.
Page 41 - ... hours, so as to thoroughly cleanse the filters. In St. Thomas there are two of these filters, each with a filtering capacity of 500,000 gallons, and they are at present putting in an additional one.