Public Health, Michigan (Volume 3) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1908 Excerpt: ... FACTORY AND WORKSHOP TUBERCULOSIS. circulab No. 92, Maine State Board Op Health. Tuberculosis (consumption) is a disease of indoor life. The home is the most frequent source of infection, and next to that come the factory, the workshop, and the office. The danger of spreading the disease from person to person in these work-places, as well as in the home, is avoidable. As one of the greatest of the world's authorities on questions of this kind says: "The consumptive himself is almost harmless, and only becomes harmful through bad habits." The following histories show how, through carelessness and uncleanly habits in regard to spitting, the disease may be spread: 1st. History. Bernard B., 29 years, single, a turner. The mother died in 1876 in childbed at the age of 42 years. The father died in 1875 from a disease of the stomach. Neither among the grandparents nor the brothers or sisters of the parents had there been a case of tuberculosis. A brother 25 years of age died of disease of the heart, and six brothers and sisters whose ages range from 32 to 50, are well. In the shop where the patient worked from 1887 to 1892, a man, O., died of consumption in 1889; then another workman who was much with O. died of the same disease. In 1889 the patient, Bernard B., was troubled with spitting blood. Since 1891 his master, whose father died at the age of 61 of senile debility, and whose mother is well, died of tuberculosis. In the autumn of 1892 Fritz St., who had worked for four years as an apprentice in the shop, became tuberculous. The workshop is large and well ventilated, but these tuberculous persons had spit upon the floor, and the floor was swept dry. 2d. History. Emll K., 40 years, married, a cabinet maker. His father and mother are both living and well, the f...