Proceedings and Addresses at a Sanitary Convention...under the Direction of a Committee of the State Board of Health...

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Robert Smith and Company, 1891

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Página 91 - That disease, over which science has since achieved a succession of glorious and beneficent victories, was then the most terrible of all the ministers of death. The havoc of the plague...
Página 49 - And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee...
Página 99 - ... the smallpox was always present, filling the churchyards with corpses, tormenting with constant fears all whom it had not yet stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to the lover.
Página 62 - Michigan, 1871, as follows: (1734). SEC. 43. Whenever any householder shall know that any person within his family is taken sick with the smallpox or any other disease dangerous to the public health...
Página 86 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread, — Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger and dirt; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich ! — She sang the
Página 61 - ... to order the prompt vaccination or isolation of persons who have been exposed to email-pox; to see that no person suffers for lack of nurses or other necessaries because of isolation for the public good ; to give public notice of infected places by placard on the premises, and otherwise if necessary...
Página 20 - ... which they shall judge best for the safety of the inhabitants, by removing such sick or infected person to a separate house...
Página 23 - The injurious consequences which are likely to result from such misapprehension and misuse of the word disinfectant will be appreciated when it is known that recent researches have demonstrated that many of the agents which have been found useful as deodorizers, or as antiseptics, are entirely without value for the destruction of disease germs.
Página 22 - Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
Página 64 - ... for the term of two years, one for the term of four years, and one for the term of six years.

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