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TEXTII BIENNIAL REPOliT. 41 the free alimi in filtered water was injurious to steam boilers. P>nt it is ai)i>arent that such an infinitesimal proi)ortion of alum in the water as we have named can have no apprecialde effect upon the steel shells of boilers luiless the boilers remain uncleaned for very long periods. Most untiltered waters contain notable quantities of jnagnesia. soda and other substances which affect steam boilers injuriously. From these substances most of our filtered waters are almost wholly free. Of the total number of water samples analyzed in the laboratory about one-third are physicians' samples of well-water from houses where typhoid fever has prevailed and where the well is suspected of being the source of the infection. Our earlier work in this line showed a most unfortunate condition of affairs, since the great majority of the samples received were l»adly polluted. During the last year, however, the majority of samples of well-water analyzed have been of very fair quality and free from fecal contamination. It is the general custom in villages and farm-houses to have an op^n i)rivy or pit within one hundred feet of the house. Where flies abound they pass from the house to the privy and back, carrying upon their feet and frequently deposit upon food-stuffs small particles of fecal matter, which may contain the germs of tyithoid. Such germs are excreted in enormous numbers by all typhoid patients and by convalescents for some weeks after recovery. It is both practicable and easy to use closed receptacles in privies, or to cover dejections as soon as deposited with dry earth, ashes or lime. Houses having water-closets should have wire screen-doors to keep out flies. Finally, every house in wl:i».ii there is a case of typhoid should be required to use disinfectants freely upon all excrementitious matter and ui)on all clothing soiled by the patient. Beginning in the summer of 1003 a vigorous campaign has been carried on by the Board of Health against the Hook-worm parasite, Uncinaria Americana. The presence of this parasite was first brou^^ut to the knowledge of the physicians of the State by Dr. C. W. Stiles of the United States I'ublic Health and ^Marine Hospital Service, at the meeting of the State Medical Society in 1003. This loathsome and destructive i>arasite has been shown by our work to be present in all the counties of the State east of the Piedmont section. So far no sample of Uncinaria-infected feces has been received from beyond the Blue Ridge. There is a constant all-the-year demand upon the laboratory for examinations of sputum from suspected cases of tuberculosis. The greater part of such samples received do in fact show the germ of tuberculosis. Tuberculous s]»utum is the most dangerous class of samples received at the laboratory. We are sorry to say that not a few physicians are so reckless as to send such samples in containers not authorized by the Board of Health and which are forbidden by United States law to be carried in the mails. Such physicians fre-
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-01: Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Health [1879-1908] |
Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Heath [1879-1908] |
Subject Name | North Carolina. State Board of Health -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina. |
Creator | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh : News & Observer, 1881-1909. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1903-1904 |
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Language | English |
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Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Heath [1879-1908] |
Subject Name | North Carolina. State Board of Health -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina. |
Creator | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh : News & Observer, 1881-1909. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1903-1904 |
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Language | English |
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Volume Number | 10 |
Page Number | 41 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | TEXTII BIENNIAL REPOliT. 41 the free alimi in filtered water was injurious to steam boilers. P>nt it is ai)i>arent that such an infinitesimal proi)ortion of alum in the water as we have named can have no apprecialde effect upon the steel shells of boilers luiless the boilers remain uncleaned for very long periods. Most untiltered waters contain notable quantities of jnagnesia. soda and other substances which affect steam boilers injuriously. From these substances most of our filtered waters are almost wholly free. Of the total number of water samples analyzed in the laboratory about one-third are physicians' samples of well-water from houses where typhoid fever has prevailed and where the well is suspected of being the source of the infection. Our earlier work in this line showed a most unfortunate condition of affairs, since the great majority of the samples received were l»adly polluted. During the last year, however, the majority of samples of well-water analyzed have been of very fair quality and free from fecal contamination. It is the general custom in villages and farm-houses to have an op^n i)rivy or pit within one hundred feet of the house. Where flies abound they pass from the house to the privy and back, carrying upon their feet and frequently deposit upon food-stuffs small particles of fecal matter, which may contain the germs of tyithoid. Such germs are excreted in enormous numbers by all typhoid patients and by convalescents for some weeks after recovery. It is both practicable and easy to use closed receptacles in privies, or to cover dejections as soon as deposited with dry earth, ashes or lime. Houses having water-closets should have wire screen-doors to keep out flies. Finally, every house in wl:i».ii there is a case of typhoid should be required to use disinfectants freely upon all excrementitious matter and ui)on all clothing soiled by the patient. Beginning in the summer of 1003 a vigorous campaign has been carried on by the Board of Health against the Hook-worm parasite, Uncinaria Americana. The presence of this parasite was first brou^^ut to the knowledge of the physicians of the State by Dr. C. W. Stiles of the United States I'ublic Health and ^Marine Hospital Service, at the meeting of the State Medical Society in 1003. This loathsome and destructive i>arasite has been shown by our work to be present in all the counties of the State east of the Piedmont section. So far no sample of Uncinaria-infected feces has been received from beyond the Blue Ridge. There is a constant all-the-year demand upon the laboratory for examinations of sputum from suspected cases of tuberculosis. The greater part of such samples received do in fact show the germ of tuberculosis. Tuberculous s]»utum is the most dangerous class of samples received at the laboratory. We are sorry to say that not a few physicians are so reckless as to send such samples in containers not authorized by the Board of Health and which are forbidden by United States law to be carried in the mails. Such physicians fre- |
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