Annual Message of ... Mayor of Philadelphia: Containing the Reports of the Various Departments

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Page 133 - The patient should be placed in a good light, and, if a child, properly held. In cases where it is possible to get a good view of the throat, depress the tongue and rub the cotton swab gently, but freely, against any visible exudate.
Page 247 - If any person shall adulterate milk,' skim-milk, or cream with water or otherwise to be sold, or shall sell or offer for sale, or have in possession with intent to sell, any...
Page 138 - The object of disinfection is to prevent the extension of infectious diseases by destroying the specific infectious material which gives rise to them. This is accomplished by the use of disinfectants. There can be no partial disinfection of such material; either its infecting power is destroyed or it is not. In the latter case, there is a failure to disinfect. Nor can there be any disinfection in the absence of infectious material.
Page 271 - To the President and Members of the Board of Health. GENTLEMEN : — In accordance with the Act of Assembly of March 8, 1860, I have the honor to submit an abstract of the births, marriages and deaths occurring in the City of Philadelphia during the year ending December 31, 1894.
Page 216 - The guardians for the relief and employment of the poor of the city of Philadelphia, the district of Southwark, and the townships of the Northern Liberties and Penn...
Page 74 - Resolved, That the College of Physicians believes that the attempt to register consumptives and to treat them as the subjects of contagious disease, would be adding hardship to the lives of these unfortunates, stamping them as the outcasts of society.
Page 134 - Do not push the swab into the blood-serum, nor break the surface in any way. Then replace the swab in its own tube, plug both tubes, put them in the box, and return the culture outfit at once to the station from which it was obtained.
Page 134 - In other cases, including those in which the exudate is confined to the larynx, avoiding the tongue, pass the swab far back, and rub it freely against the mucous membrane of the pharynx and tonsils. Without laying the swab down, withdraw the cotton plug from the culture tube, insert the swab, and rub that portion of it which has touched the exudate gently, but thoroughly back and forth all over the surface of the blood serum.
Page 81 - Danger of social intercourse arises from the neglect of the precaution described. Fresh air is of the highest importance for tuberculous persons. Hot and stuffy rooms have an evil influence over the disease. Except in special circumstances, the bed-room window should be kept open by night as well as by day. Note. — The disinfection of rooms that have been occupied by the tuberculous patients, and of beds, bedding, curtains, carpets, etc. , will be promptly attended to upon a notice sent to the...
Page 277 - The following table gives the birth place of those married : The number of marriages in which both parties were natives of the United States was three thousand...

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