Twenty Second Report Of The State Board Of Health Of The State Of Vermont From January 1 1918 To December 31 1919

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ISBN 13 : 9781334121982
Total Pages : 356 pages
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Download or read book Twentieth (Tenth Biennial) Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Vermont written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Twentieth (Tenth Biennial) Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Vermont: From January 1, 1914, to December 31, 1915 As intimated in the last biennial report, the control of communicable diseases is centering largely in the discovery and control of carriers; that is, persons apparently healthy, who harbor disease germs and distribute them by various means so that others are infected. While the carriers have an im munity which protects themselves from the disease, the germs which they carry are alive and virile, ready to produce their particular malady when they are planted' on ground which favors their growth. More and more the problem of control of communicable disease is turning out to be a human problem, and less fear is attached to the danger of infection by inter mediary Objects, although in many cases where freshly infected by the patient, these must be considered. Thus the germs of typhoid fever are passed from the body of a patient or carrier' in the feces and urine, and must reach the intestine of another person in order to cause the disease. The throat and nose is the growing place for the germs of diphtheria, scarlet fever, infantile paralysis, measles, whooping cough and probably other diseases, and these germs are discharged in virulent condition in droplets Of sputum which are carried in so many difierent ways, not only in coughing and sneezing, but in wetting the fingers and then handling all the various objects which man kind makes common use of. Consumption or tuberculosis of the lungs is carried in a similar manner. All this could be pre vented by the simple methods of ordinary cleanliness. 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.