Hygiene Publique Desinfection

Author : Committee on Disinfectants
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781332009091
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Disinfection and Disinfectants written by Committee on Disinfectants and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Disinfection and Disinfectants: Their Application and Use in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease and in Public and Private Sanitation At the last annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, held in St. Louis, Mo., October 14-17, 1884, the following resolution was offered by Dr. James F. Hibberd, of Indiana, referred to the Executive Committee, and, after a favorable report by that committee, unanimously adopted by the Association: Whereas, It is important, equally for practitioners of medicine, for boards of health, and for the general public, that the highest attainments of science in this department of sanitation should be formulated for easy reference by all who need it for practical application, and especially is this desirable in view of the probable visitation of cholera in the near future; - therefore be it Resolved, by the American Public Health Association, That a committee be appointed to examine the subject of disinfectants, antiseptics, and germicides, in their relations to preventive medicine and sanitation, and that said committee formulate a table of these agents for the information of those interested, the agents to be classified, so far as may be deemed advisable, according to their specific virtues, facility of application, and economy of use. In accordance with this resolution, the following committee was appointed by the president of the association: Major George M. Sternberg, Surgeon U. S. Army, Fellow by Courtesy in the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Dr. Joseph H. Raymond, Professor of Physiology and Sanitary Science in Long Island College Hospital, and health commissioner of the city of Brooklyn; Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, Professor of Physiological Chemistry in the University of Michigan, and member of the Michigan State Board of Health; Major Charles Smart, Surgeon U. S. army, and member of the National Board of Health; Dr. W. H. Watkins, Medical Director of the Auxiliary Sanitary Association of New Orleans; Dr. Albert R. Leeds, Professor of Chemistry in Stevens Institute of Technology, and member of the New Jersey State Board of Health; and Dr. George H. Rohe, Professor of Hygiene in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore. The committee met immediately after appointment, and organized by the election of Dr. Sternberg as chairman and Dr. Rohe as secretary. In order to be enabled to make an extended experimental research, the committee, after consultation, decided to appeal to municipal and state boards of health, and to other sanitary organizations, for financial aid. Responses to this appeal were encouraging; and a statement of receipts and disbursements on account of this work is appended to this report. 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.