Epidemiological Society of London
Published: 2016-06-27
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Excerpt from Transactions of the Epidemiological Society of London, Vol. 10: Session 1890-91 Provisions are thus made (1) to empower an Officer of Health to inspect a dairy, and at the same time to have the animals examined and reported upon by a veterinary surgeon; (2) to interdict the supply of milk suspected of being infected or produced by unhealthy cows; (3) to secure the prosecution of contumacious dairymen; (4) and to enable him to put these powers in motion, in a rather summary manner, either within or without his juris diction. The careful and energetic administration of this portion of the statute, as occasion may demand, will doubt less tend to prevent the spread of typhoid fever, scarlatina, diphtheria, and tuberculosis, and, it may possibly be, other diseases disseminated by the consumption of infected milk. The other sections of the Act, intended to protect the public against various common sources of infection, are very important. They comprise summary powers: (a) for the cleansing and disinfection of infected premises, rooms, bedding, and clothing; (b) prohibiting the undue retention of the dead bodies of persons who have died of any infectious disease; (0) the removal of bodies of persons, who have died of infectious disease in hospitals, only for burial (d) to authorise justices in certain cases to order dead bodies to be buried; (e) the purifying of public conveyances used for carrying infected corpses; (f) the detention of an infected person without proper lodging in hospital by the order of a justice; (g) avoiding the throwing of infectious rubbish into ashpits without being previously disinfected, all of which have a direct bearing on the improvement and conservation of the public health. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.