State measures for the direct prevention of poverty, war, and pestilence, containing three articles, State remedies for poverty; Can war be suppressed? and The extinction of infectious diseases, by a doctor of medicine [G. Drysdale].1885 |
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Page 61 - Where any suitable hospital or place for the reception of the sick is provided within the district of a...
Page 20 - There was no small-pox in the New World before its discovery by Columbus in 1492. In 1517 the disease was imported into St. Domingo. Three years later, in one of the Spanish expeditions from Cuba to Mexico, a negro covered with the pustules of small-pox was landed on the Mexican coast. From him the disease spread with such desolation that within a very short time, according to Robertson, three millions and a half of people were destroyed by it in that kingdom alone.
Page 53 - The seclusion, at home or in hospital, of those affected, during the whole course of the disease, as well as during the convalescence from it, or until all power of infecting others is past.
Page 61 - ... may, on a certificate signed by a legally qualified medical practitioner, and with the consent of the superintending body of such hospital or place, be removed, by order of any j ustice, to such hospital or place at the cost of the local authority...
Page 3 - If the opinion were once generally established among the labouring class that their welfare required a due regulation of the numbers of families, the respectable and well-conducted of the body would conform to the prescription, and only those would exempt themselves from it, who were in the habit of making light of social obligations generally ; and there would be then an evident justification for converting the moral obligation against bringing children into the...
Page 55 - For years, the overcrowding of rural labourers' dwellings has been a matter of deep concern, not only to persons who care for sanitary good, but to persons who care for decent and moral life. For, again and again, in phrases so uniform that they seem stereotyped, reporters on the spread of epidemic disease in rural districts have insisted on the extreme importance of that overcrowding, as an influence which renders it a quite hopeless task to attempt the limiting of any infection which is introduced....
Page 61 - ... any person who is suffering from any dangerous infectious disorder, and is without proper lodging or accommodation, or lodged in a room occupied by more than one family, or is on board any ship or vessel...
Page 28 - Pollution Commissioners, in which they say that, estimating the town population of Great Britain at about fifteen ' Filth-Diseases and their Prevention, Boston, 1876, p. 33. ' Sixth Report. millions, "the remaining twelve millions of country population derive their water almost exclusively from shallow wells, and these are, so far as our experience extends, almost always horribly polluted by sewage and by animal matters of the most disgusting origin.
Page 3 - It would be possible for the state to guarantee employment at ample wages to all who are born. But if it does this, it is bound in self-protection, and for the sake of every purpose for which government exists, to provide that no person shall be born without its consent.
Page 54 - The surrounding of the sick with nurses and attendants who are themselves non-conductors or incapable of being affected ; inasmuch as they are known to be protected against the disease by having already passed through cow-pox or smallpox. "4. The due purification, during and after the disease, by water, chlorine, carbolic acid, sulphurous acid, etc., of the rooms, bedclothes, etc., used by the sick and their attendants, and the disinfection of their own persons.