Seventeenth Annual Report Of The Provincial Board Of Health Of Ontario

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Total Pages : 228 pages
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Download or read book Seventh Annual Report of the Provincial Board of Health of Ontario written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Seventh Annual Report of the Provincial Board of Health of Ontario: Being for the Year 1888 May it please your honour: In presenting for your consideration the seventh annual report of the Provincial Board of Health, I shall, as has been customary in the reports of my predecessors, make a few remarks regarding the progress of sanitary reform, the Board's present position, and its prospective work. The work of the past year has been very gratifying, abundant evidence being repeatedly furnished of the beneficial results flowing from extensive diffusion of sanitary information by means of pamphlets, sanitary conventions, and such other means as, to this Board have, from time to time, seemed best suited to accomplish the end in view, viz., the education of the people in regard to the best means of preventing or limiting the spread of epidemic contagious disease. Under the authority of the excellent sanitary legislation which our Government and the Legislature have seen fit, in their wisdom, to adopt the work of the organization of Local Health authorities goes bravely on, there being at present no less than 520 Local Boards of Health and some 350 Medical Health Officers throughout the Province, all more or less actively engaged in performing their duties by perfecting their local sanitary arrangements for the prevention of disease among the people of their several localities. In numerous instances, during the past few years, many of these local organizations have been suddenly called upon to cope with serious outbreaks of disease, and the prompt, systematic and energetic manner in which they have undertaken the task assigned them has invariably resulted in rapidly stamping out such epidemic outbreaks. In their efforts to carry on the good work, in which they are engaged, many of these Health Officers are frequently meeting with difficulties in determining the causes of outbreaks of disease, whether om bad water, foul air, impure foods, etc., and, in consequence of these difficulties, appeals are frequently made to the Provincial Board of Health for assistance in removing them. In order to meet this urgent want, in some measure, and to assist and encourage Health Officers, who are faithfully, and, generally without compensation, endeavoring to discharge their duties in their respective localities, it is desirable that this Board should be furnished with the means wherewith to carry on practical experimental work in Bacteriology, and in testing the purity of specimens of water, air, food, etc., which are from time to time sent by Local Health Officers. In this way the usefulness of this Hoard would be very much increased by, in many instances, furnishing the necessary information to assist in limiting the spread of outbreaks of disease. This desirable end could be obtained here by a comparatively small outlay for the necessary apparatus and by making such arrangements as would enable the executive officer of this Board to devote his entire time to sanitary work. 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.