Transactions, Volumen4American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality, 1914 |
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Página 323 - ... execute or cause to be executed and shall file with the health officer of said District not later than the Saturday first ensuing after the expiration of three secular days immediately following the date of such birth a proper report thereof, written in ink, on a blank furnished by said health officer, embodying all such data as may be necessary for the purposes of the Bureau of the Census of- the Department of Commerce and Labor, and such other data, if any, as the Commissioners of said District...
Página 324 - Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment...
Página 253 - Pupils over eight years of age can do this; sometimes younger. Dustiness In high schools health officers can measure or estimate it by cultures, or by the " sugar method " recommended by the Committee on Standard Methods for the Examination of Air.
Página 324 - ... all acts and parts of acts contrary to the provisions of this act or inconsistent therewith, be, and the same hereby are, repealed. Approved, February 27, 1907. AN ACT To provide for the better registration of births in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
Página 321 - AN ACT for the prevention of diseases in the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the District of Columbia, That it shall be the duty of the Board of Health of the District of Columbia, whenever in their judgment the said District is threatened with, or affected by, any formidable epidemic, infectious, or contagious disease, to issue, or cause to be issued, such orders, regulations, and instructions as may, in their judgment, be deemed...
Página 326 - ... indicate on any report required by this act any fact or facts whereby the identity of the father or of the mother or of the* child born will be disclosed: And provided further, That no report need be made of stillbirths when the fetus delivered has apparently not passed the fifth month of utero-gestation. Upon receipt of any report aforesaid, said health officer shall forward to the father of the child, or, if his address be unknown, to the mother, an acknowledgment of the receipt of such report,...
Página 125 - In the summer mortality of infants has been greatly underestimated in the last 25 years. In the future much more weight should be given to its influence. (2) The lethal action of heat is a function not so much of the maximum and mean temperatures of the external air as of the indoor temperatures, which, In the late summer may continue to be high, in spite of remissions In temperature of the external air. (3) The action of...
Página 252 - To standardize janitor service, or school housekeeping, the first step is to get the facts. Every building, as every room in it, has its own conditions to be learned and controlled. This can be done with least expense and greatest effectiveness by enlisting pupils' cooperation. Expense is negligible. Effectiveness is along three lines : (i) Practically constant supervision which good housekeepers find indispensable ; (2) permanent records of sanitary details in place of guesses and opinions ; (3)...
Página 252 - ... co-operation. Expense is negligible. Effectiveness is along three lines: i. Practically constant supervision which good housekeepers find indispensable; 2, permanent records of sanitary details in place of guesses and opinions; 3, interest of future voters and home-makers in such details by practice in regulating them. Health Officers. — Appoint a group of health officers in each classroom, for periods so limited that each child has service once a year. Credit their work to "physiology and...
Página 322 - REGULATIONS to secure a full and correct record of vital statistics, including the registration of marriages, births, and deaths, the interment, disinterment, and removal of the dead in the District of Columbia, as amended by act of January 25, 1898, and by Commissioners