Nineteenth Annual Report Of The Health Commissioner For The Year Ending March 31st 1896

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Download or read book Eleventh Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Ohio written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Eleventh Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Ohio: For the Year Ending October 31, 1896 During the year ended October 31, 1895, small-pox was reported in sixteen places, with 206 cases of the disease. At the close of that year the disease had been suppressed except in Bridgeport, Martins Ferry and their immediate vicinity. There had been up to that time sixteen cases of small-pox in Bridgeport, six cases in Martin's Ferry and two in the adjoining township of Pease. It should be noted that these two cities, while under separate government, are practically undivided. The disease was abating in both places when, about the first of December, fresh outbreaks occurred in both Bridgeport and Martins Ferry. In Bridgeport this was traceable to exposure to a man named Powell who died from what was pronounced, on post mortem examination, purpura hemorrkaghica, but which was in fact malignant small-pox of the purpuric variety. In Martins Ferry there were also mistakes in diagnosis which caused an increased development of the disease. The secretary of the State Board of Health visited these places early in December, and urged the local authorities to enforce more stringent measures for suppressing the disease. In Martins Ferry there was difficulty in getting the authorities to realize the necessity for a more liberal expenditure of money for quarantine and other services. An effort to secure the harmonious co-operation of the health authorities of Bridgeport, Martins Ferry and Wheeling, W.Va., which is connected by bridges with the former places, and where small-pox was also prevailing, was but partly successful. 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.