Dangerous communicable diseases, how spread, how restricted and prevented : data and statements supplied to School Superintendents and Teachers by the Michigan State Board of Health, in compliance with Act No. 146, Laws of 1895.

  • Michigan. State Board of Health.
Date:
190.3
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Credit: Dangerous communicable diseases, how spread, how restricted and prevented : data and statements supplied to School Superintendents and Teachers by the Michigan State Board of Health, in compliance with Act No. 146, Laws of 1895. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    thoroughly. For a large room use a proportionally larger quantity of sulphur at the rate of three pounds for each 1,000 cubic feet of air space, and burn as much as possible of the sulphur used. 4. Keep your premises and everything connected therewith clean, but remember that the contagium of these diseases may attach to the cleanest article of clothing, food, drink, book or paper, if it is exposed thereto. 5. The law requires householders and physicians to notify the local health officer of the first case and of every case of one of these diseases. The penalty for violation of this law may be as much as one hundred dollars. Plain and distinct notices should be placed on the house or premises in which there is u person sick with one of these diseases. Unless the local board of health orders otherwise, whoever violates the orders of the health officer is liable to a fine, and to imprisonment if the fine is not paid. More complete statements of means of restricting and prevent np these diseases, are In the pamphlets Issued by the State Board of Health, on the “Restriction and Prevention of Consumption,” the “Restriction and Prevention of Diphtheria,” the “Prevention of Typhoid Fever, tte “Restriction and Prevention of Scarlet Fever,” “Advice for the Re- striction and Prevention of Meningitis,” the “Restriction and Pre- vention of Measles,” the “Restriction and Prevention of Whooping- cough,” and the “Prevention of Smallpox,” any of which may be had by oddresslng the Secretary of the State Board of Health, Lansing. Michigan.