Annual Report Of The Surgeon General Of The Public Health Service Of The United States For The Fiscal Year 1923

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Annual Report of the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service of the United States: For the Fiscal Year 1923 Sir: In accordance with the act approved July 1, 1902, I have the honor to submit, for transmission to Congress, the following report of the operations of the United States Public Health Service for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1923. This is the fifty-second annual report of this service, covering the one hundred and twenty-fifth year of its existence. In conformity with existing law and the practice in past years, account has been taken of the prevalence of communicable diseases throughout the world and the state of the public health in our own country. Presumably because of unsettled economic, social, and political conditions abroad, certain communicable diseases have been widespread here and there in foreign countries In Russia typhus fever was reputed to be responsible for a large number of deaths. An endemic center of cholera existed in southwest Russia and there was apprehension lest its borders would be extended to other European countries. The prevalence of plague in many foreign countries continues and many foci were established in the Canary Islands, Mexico, and other places. Here and there in South America and in Mexico isolated outbreaks of yellow fever have occurred. Special attention has been paid, however, by the sanitary authorities of these countries to the prevalence of this disease and record of its spread has been carefully kept through reports of the Consular Service in these localities. Furthermore, the International Health Board has maintained an organization and conducted active preventive operations in cooperation with these countries. In consequence of the enforcement of the international sanitary agreements and the maintenance of the national quarantine system, no cases of the major quarantinable diseases have gained access to this country within the year. As evidenced by the sanitary reports generally, health conditions throughout the United States have continued as satisfactory as in recent years. Furthermore, an increasing interest in public health improvement has been manifest. A sharp outbreak of yellow fever in Colombia, reports of suspicious cases in other places, and evidence of a high mosquito index in certain seaports in tropical America have made it necessary to impose somewhat more stringent quarantine restrictions on account of this disease than during the previous year. In spite of these precautions the delays to vessels have been practically negligible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.