A contribution to the study of epidemic diarrhoea : presidential address delivered before the Incorporated Society [of] Medical Officers of Health, November, 1899 / by Arthur Newsholme.

  • Newsholme, Arthur, 1857-1943.
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[1900]
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Credit: A contribution to the study of epidemic diarrhoea : presidential address delivered before the Incorporated Society [of] Medical Officers of Health, November, 1899 / by Arthur Newsholme. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    infants, sometimes the reverse. When we remember how common are secondary and tertiary cases of enteric fever in houses where unskilled nurses are employed to nurse the first patient, it is not surprising that the same should hold good for diarrhoea. These, and many other points which suggest themselves, must be left for further investigation. I have already exceeded the limits of my time and space. I venture to express the hope, in conclusion, that the present address may lead others to give more detailed facts relating to local experience and to the success attending local efforts at prevention of this disease, including methods of improved scavenging, better paving, reduction of dust in our streets, im- pervious paving of yards and alleys, the substitution of the water- carriage system for privies, and the municipal supply of sterilized milk, as in the interesting experiment at St. Helens. If during the present year’s history of our Society each Branch were to invite and receive contributions on this subject, based on local experience or on special investigation, it would be found at the end of the year that we had done a piece of splendid work in the advancement of the public weal.