Legal Principles of Public Health Administration (Paperback)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1914 Original Publisher: T.H. Flood Subjects: Public health laws Law / Environmental Medical / Health Care Delivery Medical / Public Health Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Dillon says of police powers as related to health:4 '' This is indeed one of the chief purposes of local government, and reasonable bylaws in relation thereto have always been sustained in England as within the incidental authority of corporations to ordain." 6. Science of public health of recent origin. The science of public health is of very recent origin, though public health measures have long been recognized and used. Thus, the primitive Mosaic Code contains many such provisions. With the advance of the science, methods have been altered. Formerly cases of yellow fever were strictly isolated from healthy individuals, and the results were very disappointing. Today the healthy individuals are permitted to associate freely with the sick, but the patient is protected from the stegomyia mosquito, and the breeding places of those insects are destroyed, or rendered deadly for the larvae. (400.) Formerly malaria was supposed to be the result of some miasm, and not infectious. Today it is known that the disease is similar to yellow fever in production, and similar means are used for its control. The morbific imps who spread those diseases laughed at fences and military cordons, but they are vanquished when the bushes are cut down, when ponds are drained, and streams are trained, and stocked with "millions" fish; and when, moreover, necessary receptacles for water are screened effectually or treated with petroleum oil. 7. Local versus state supervision. Formerly th...