A manual of practical hygiene for students, physicians, and health officers / By Charles Harrington.

  • Harrington, Charles, 1856-1908.
Date:
1914
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Credit: A manual of practical hygiene for students, physicians, and health officers / By Charles Harrington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    Phosphorus poisoning. Wood alcohol poisoning. Naphtha poisoning. Bisulphide of carbon poisoning. Dinitrobenzine poisoning. Caisson disease (compressed-air illness). Any other disease or disability contracted as a result of the nature of the person's employment. Group 3.—Venereal Diseases. Gonococcus infection. Syphilis. Group 4.—^Diseases of Unknown Origin. Pellagra. Cancer. Provided, That the State department of health (or board of health) may from time to time, in its discretion, declare additional diseases notifiable and subject to the provisions of this act. Sec. 3. Hereafter each and every physician practicing in the State of who treats or examines any person suffering from or afflicted with, or suspected to be suffering from or afflicted with, any one of the notifiable diseases shall immediately report such case of notifiable dis- ease in writing to the local health authority having jurisdiction. Said report shall be forwarded either by mail or by special messenger, and shall give the following information : 1. The date when the report is made. 2. The name of the disease or suspected disease. 3. The name, age, sex, color, occupation, address, and school attended or place of employment of patient. 4. Number of adults and of children in the household. 5. Source or probable source of infection, or the origin or probable origin of the disease. 6. Name and address of the reporting physician. Provided, That if the disease is, or is suspected to be, smallpox the report shall, in addition, show whether the disease is of the mild or virulent type, and whether the patient has ever been successfully vaccinated, and, if the patient has been successfully vaccinated, the number of times and dates or approximate dates of such vaccination • and if the disease is, or is suspected to be, cholera, diphtheria, plague, scarlet fever, smallpox, or yellow fever, the physician shall, in addition to the written report, give immediate notice of the case to the local health authority in the most expeditious manner available; and if the disease is, or is suspected to be, typlioid fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria, or septic sore throat the report shall also show whether the patient has been, or any member of the household in which the patient resides, is engaged or employed in the handling of milk for sale or preliminary to