Annual Report Volume 3 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: spread of epidemic or contagions diseases. Outbreaks of such diseases should receive careful study, in order that all possible knowledge of them mav be obtained and used in future outbreaks. In order that knowledge gained by one board may be made useful to others, the law also makes it the duty of the health physician, and also of the clerk of every local board of health, to report all facts required, and to make special reports to the State Board of Health whenever required to do so by the State Board. This Board has notified the clerk of each local board that a report was required of the outbreak of every epidemic. In several circulars, including circular No. 6, reprinted in this Keport, this haa been done as follows: In case any disease should appear in your locality as an epidemic, please make a special report of the fact to this office as soon as possible, in order that the conditions of its progress and decline may be thoroughly studied. This duty does not yet seem to be fully understood and acted upon by all clerks, but in some cases such notices have been received. The foregoing Eules and Eegulations refer to many subjects of great interest to those who study questions connected with public hygiene; but upon one subject especially, namely, the importance of vaccination and re-vaccination, the writer desires to offer a few comments and some evidence which, although from a foreign country, yet seems to bring the subject home to us with greater force than some relating to our own country, which, fortunately, cannot now furnish evidence of the same character as this from Turkey. VACCINATION. The very great extent by which the sickness and death-rate is reduced in this country through vaccination can hardly be appreciated by our people who have never seen the...