Proceedings of the stated meeting held Wednesday, December 15, 1915

✍ Scribed by R.B. Owens

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1916
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 89 KB
• Volume: 181
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(16)90132-7

✦ Synopsis

presented the paper of the evening on "The Transmissibility of Diseases and the Public Health." The manifold channels of transmission of diseases, as well as the methods used, in some eases, in the destruction of the morbific agents of disease, and in others for their utilization to a good end, were fully described. Tables andstatistic, were presented which indicated that pure water, coupled with better drainage systems, had materially reduced typhoid fever, small-pox, diphtheria, and many other diseases in the large cities. Diseases transmitted by milk and other foodstuffs were also given consideration, as was the r61e of the house-fly and mosquito as carriers of bacterial infections. The subject was fully illustrated by numerous lantern slides.

Mr. Levy remarked that the meetings of the Institute were usually signalized by important presentations on subjects of a more or less technological nature which, while of great significance to all workers in the