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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    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.* [281] [Fourteenth Edition, August, 1963, 30,000, 203,000. Printed.] In Michigan the most dangerous communicable dis- eases, named in the order of their importance as causes of deaths during the ten years ending in 1897, were con- sumption, pneumonia, influenza (la grippe), diph- theria, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, measles, whooping- cough and smallpox. The relative importance of these diseases, in those years, is shown by the diagram below, the first solid line representing consumption: DEATHS IN MICHIGAN. 10 YEARS. 1888-97. TYPHOID INFLUENZA SCARLET FEVER. MENINGITIS. MEASLES WHOOPING-COUGH. I SMALLPOX. PNEUMONIA. DIPHTHERIA . FEVER. Cplate rrji] ^ requires “That there shall be taught in every each nf school In Michigan the principal modes by which methcl dangerous communicable diseases are spread, and the best or the restriction and prevention of each such disease. The