Discussion on the prevention of enteric fever / opened by George Vivian Poore and continued by W.T. Gairdner [and others].

  • George Vivian Poore
Date:
1898
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Credit: Discussion on the prevention of enteric fever / opened by George Vivian Poore and continued by W.T. Gairdner [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAGE JBacterioscopic examination (or investigation) advantages of 87 of sewage of towns 59 of all sources of drinking-water . 59 of milk and milk products 60, 70 — — of shellfish and preserved foods 60 Bangor, enteric fever at . 46 Belfast, enteric fever at . . . 1 Bermuda : enteric fever very prevalent . 79 caused by pollution of water-supply by soil . 79 Beverley, enteric fever at . . 6, 46 caused by sewage farm . . 117 Bicester : enteric fever at . 41 Blackburn, enteric fever at . 46 Bodmin, enteric fever at . 46 Bone-marrow, persistence of bacillus of enteric fever in , 106 Bramah, reputed inventor of water-closet 97 Bristol: low death-rate from enteric fever 61 — see also Clifton. Buckingham : enteric fever at. . 47 Burning: disposal of excreta by burning 57, 73, 107 Caius College: enteric fever . . . . 11 Cambridge water-supply . . . . 84 — see Caius College. Caterham and Redhill: enteric fever 5, 44 Cesspools, cause of endemic enteric fever at Lyons . . 100 — danger from . . . . . . 119 Chadwick, Sir Edwin . . . . 95 — — his ideas distorted . . . . 96 Chester-le-Street, enteric fever at . . . 48 Chill: contributing cause to enteric fever in India 80 China : freedom from enteric fever . 116 Cholera and typhoid: difference in method of spread . 100 at Naples from neglect of sanitation . 105 Cisterns : advantageous in breaking continuity of water-supply 84, 85, 100 Clifton : alleged epidemic of influenza distinct from typhoid ] ever . 89 — enteric fever at Clifton caused by contaminated milk 61, 90 previous freedom from enteric fever 61 — prompt investigation of source of outbreak 85 — milk-supply, methods of distribution and contamination . 61—65 — employment of Widal test in diagnosis 61, 87 Clifton College : incidence of outbreak of enteric fever upon . 65 Closets : absence in town in Sicily; no typhoid fever . 105 Contagion of enteric fever , . . . 2 Convalescence : persistence of bacillus of enteric fever 81, 82, 87, 88, 106 County authorities, notification to . . 95