A manual for health officers / by J. Scott MacNutt ... with a foreword by William T. Sedgwick.

  • MacNutt, J. Scott (Joseph Scott), 1885-
Date:
1915
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Credit: A manual for health officers / by J. Scott MacNutt ... with a foreword by William T. Sedgwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Confectioneries, 402. Congenital malformation and de- bility, 304. Congestion and death rates, 512. Consultation stations. See In- fant hygiene stations. Contact infection. See under In- fection. Contacts, surveillance of, 131. Contagious. See Communicable. Cooperative health administra- tion, 619. Correction of rates. See Stand- ardization. Costs of public health work, 96. in improving milk supplies, 393 f- vs. results, 272. of infant hygiene work, 339. Cream, 391. See also Milk, adulterants, etc., in, 390. dipped, in stores, 382. Creameries. See Milk shipping establishments. Croup. See Diphtheria. Cuspidors, public, 476. Dairies, and communicable disease, 368. inspection of, 373. water supplies for, 417. Dairy score-card, 373. Dead animals, disposal of, 459 ff. Dead bodies, care of, 136. disposal of, 461. Death, causes of, 73 ff., 513 ff. certificates of, errors in, 517. See also Infant mortality and Vital statistics. Deaths, non-resident, 507. recording of, 493. checks upon, 496. statistical rules regarding, 612 ff. Deaths, See also Vital records and statistics. Death rates, 507. and birth rates, relation be- tween, 517. by cause, 513, 515. definitions and formulas of, 507 ff. excessive, 540. factors determining, 92 f., 510. precision of, 535. reduction of limits to, 518 f. specific, 513. standardization of, 508. study and interpretation of, 513, 516, 518 f. urban and rural, 48 f. in U. S. Registration Area, 71 ff. by age, 73, 74. by cause, 75 ff. Demography, 503. Deodorants, 569, 591. Desquamation, as source (?) of infection, 112. in scarlet fever, 147 f. Diagnosis, doubtful, 102. Diagrams, 536. titles for, 537. Diarrhceal diseases, 204. infantile, 204, 302. Diphtheria, 136, 294. bacteriological diagnosis and control of, 138, 146. carriers of, numbers and con- trol of, 109, 141 ff. in institutions, 145. among school children, 142 ff. treatment of, 144 f. epidemics of, 290 f. immunization against, of ex- posed persons, 137. in institutional outbreaks, 145. incidence of, 138.