Title: Selections from public health reports and papers presented at meetings of the American Public Health Association (1884-1907).
Authors: American Public Health Association
Publisher: Arno Press,
Year: 1977
Subjects: Public health Congresses; Medical bacteriology Congresses.; Public health United States History Sources.; Public Health Congresses.; Statistics Congresses.; Disease Outbreaks Congresses.; Sanitation Congresses.
Abstract: This book contains a selection of reports from meetings of the American Public Health Association from 1884-1907. Topics include public health sanitation, pathogenic bacteria, and prevention of diseases such as diphtheria and tuberculosis.
Contents: Disease germs / George M. Sternberg -- The malarial germ of Laveran / W. T. Councilman -- Some observations on the origin and sources of pathogenic bacteria / Theobald Smith -- Do the sanitary interests of the United States demand the annexation of Cuba? / Benjamin Lee -- The relation of land monopoly to the population health / George Homan -- The relation of the plumbers and physician / Andrew Young -- The Mississippi River as a sewer / Joseph Hartzwell -- Report of the committee on the causes and prevention of diphtheria / J. J. Kinyoun -- On the application of the serum diagnosis of typhoid fever to the requirements of public health laboratories / Wyatt Johnston -- The urgent need of sanitation for the consumptive poor of our large cities / S. A. Knopf -- Report of the committee on "The duties and responsibilities of the health man, for his own and other's health" / Charles Hewitt -- Report of committee on the "The etiology of yellow fever" / H. B. Horlbeck -- University laboratories in relation to he investigation of public health problems and to commercial work / Ellen H. Richards -- The etiology of yellow fever: a preliminary note / Water Reed, James Carrol, A. Agramonte, and Jessie W. Lazear -- Report of committee on "Teaching of hygiene and granting of diploma of doctor of public health" / W. T. Sedgwick -- The bacterial contamination of city milk: is it harmful? Should it be controlled by public health authorities? / William Hallock Park -- Dirt, disease and the health officer / Charles V. Chapin -- The relation between human and bovine tuberculosis / Mazyck P. Ravenel -- The essentials of the crusade against tuberculosis / Lawrence F. Flick -- The sources of error in bacterial diphtheria diagnosis / Hibbert W. Hill -- Contact infection / Charles V. Chapin.