Consumption : its causes and means of prevention : a circular / issued by the State Board of Health.

  • Connecticut. State Board of Health.
Date:
[1895?]
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Credit: Consumption : its causes and means of prevention : a circular / issued by the State Board of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    and all its substitutes, should be rigorously expelled from every consumptive habitation. The damp cloth and the fire should be the chief implements of house- cleaning where consumptives dwell. Tuberculous mothers should not nurse their chil- dren, because the germs are sometimes found in the milk. The milk of tuberculous cows should never be used. Members of tuberculous families ought to find out- of-door occupation. Overcrowding, bad ventilation in houses or shops, employments which make dust, dampness of the soil, increase the liability to tubercu- lous infection, and are therefore to be avoided. It would be a general public educator, if there could be hung in street and railway cars, public halls, theaters, business offices and stores, conspicuous notices to this effect: SPITTING ON THE FLOOR POSITIVELY FORBIDDEN. They would be constant reminders, and by working a reform in the disgusting habit of spitting, would con- tribute largely to public safety. The State Board of Health, believing that any effort to restrict and control the prevalence of Con- sumption, will be a failure without the hearty and intelligent cooperation of the public, issues this circu- lar in the hope that the information which it gives will awaken an interest which will bring practical results.