Annual report of the Commissioner of the Michigan Department of Health for the fiscal year ending ... 1892State Department of Health, 1894 |
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Page 294 - The State Board of Health and the local boards shall have power and authority to examine into all nuisances, sources of filth and causes of sickness...
Page 263 - ... little water, set it on fire by hot coals or with the aid of a spoonful of alcohol, and allow the room to remain closed for twenty-four hours. For a room about ten feet square, at least two pounds of sulphur should be used ; for larger rooms, proportionally increased quantities.
Page cxx - The State Board of Health shall have the general supervision of the interests of the health and life of the citizens of the State.
Page cxx - They shall especially study the vital statistics of this State, and endeavor to make intelligent and profitable use of the collected records of death and sickness among the people.
Page 275 - State, at least once in each year, to report to the State Board of Health their proceedings, and such other facts required, on blanks and in accordance with instructions received from said State Board. They shall also make special reports whenever required to do so by the State Board of Health.
Page lix - ... to disinfect rooms, clothing and premises, and all articles likely to be infected, before allowing their use by persons other than those in isolation...
Page 262 - It is best that all persons who have a cough should carry small pieces of cloth (each just large enough to properly receive one sputum) and paraffined paper envelopes or wrappers in which the cloth, as soon as once used, may be put and securely enclosed, and, with its envelope, burned on the first opportunity.
Page xxxviii - ... sanitary investigations and inquiries respecting the causes of disease, and especially the epidemics ; the causes of mortality, and the effects of localities, employments, conditions, ingesta, habits, and circumstances on the health of the people.
Page xcvii - ... set the sulphur on fire by hot coals or with the aid of a spoonful of alcohol lighted by a match, be careful not to breathe the fumes of the burning sulphur, and when certain the sulphur is burning well, leave the room, close the door, and allow the room to be closed for twenty-four hours.
Page cxxi - Kedzie. In his annual address for 1878, as President of the State Board of Health, he proposed the holding of sanitary conventions in different parts of the State, to consider and discuss sanitary matters. A committee was immediately appointed to consider the best means of inaugurating such sanitary conventions. It was thought best that each of the conventions should be held by the joint action of the State Board of Health and a committee of citizens of the place where the convention should meet....