New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-10-01
MEDICAL AND SURGICAL NOTES

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In that city shall be strained cooled stored as
soon as IL is drawn from the cow. all milk dealers
being also forbidden TO IN any way mix
vessel for other substances than milk any person
violating this regulation being liable 70 iorieitu r
ducton. storage transportation. sale. delivery or
distribution Of milk Is required Immediately On me
family or among his employees within The build
tributed To- notify fhe BOARD and Al The same time
suspend the sale and distribution Of milk until au-
which The Board specidcs - be nlcd during tho
month If May must include tho name of the prem
sale Ia the city Of Boston. the condition u tho
stable. the number Of cows kept and the approx
too. and ts location. also the condition Of the
cows with the date o, the last examination Of them
and by whom
SANITARY RELATION OF PAINTS In a lect-
ure before The Fr0,ewaM Medical Society, DR..
Hemes takes the ground that b. is no unimpor-
tant matter ga IFS relations 20 Che sanitary condl-
tions Of building with what kind of paint the
walls are covered In his eXperm snts Dr Hoimes
TOOK equally aree pieces of OAK poplar and pine
each piece With oil PAINT. sizs rant lime paint or
compositions Aftci The pa.nt had dried ncrfoctiy
the plates We're coated with "cuitlres ~ various
w're iaid In an Incubator I'm his ADD ordinary room
tomperauie being mamtainca. From time 10 tm-
" hft' WAS scruYol ru from thf surface ~ the
plates. in order to oNamin, them as 20 Tho amount
of ltr bacteria prc-,uD The result WAS that upon
', liini c'ailns9 ne, h'riefi1 Nr' found io DE
OF quicker than on articles coated with other pig
9o%y ana . ''' SLOW ' Oh ae aai S ' more
CONTAMINATION oF AIR IN SCHOOL
HOUSES A great man, important invostigations
have been made ou This lua of Inquiry. and the
statement has heen made that the work Of children
in badly ventilated buiiines ha~ fallen some forty
i'r cent BAD consequence OF thi-. Tho first source
~ contamination noted is fhe ,Np.rcd AIR. this con-
tanning hnIN sixteen parts Ol OXYGEN ana the
amount of carbon dioNide is scn largo Hy de-
il is injurious. ana thore arc many actually poison
oHs con iin'nts 81 pa, been Thought that the
me;hods h1Ve been rc.orted 20 for getting rid Of it
me lf'' being. however. thai carbon aoNide. IKE
oiN"' t''~'~. o.tA~'s. $50. ioo % hIt been proved
thai n is not pois0nou, m rs'lt for r can be
n ro,, Meen a.iih'rn,H mM1 Win oHiys Sr
Is. briefly that the first danger in srhoolrooms is
inspired iir. hui b must he outside of lhe n'uiii-
poisons
DECREASE oF BIRTHS ~ EUROPE Analysis
Of tho official figures ~ different European coun-
tries i'm respect 20 births and deaths. shows that
tho country in which tho decrease of births Is
most striking is England. including Wales whose
coefici,nt of dccrcas, is o2G per one hundred
Scotland whose mean birth rate is nearly the same.
decreases bus 0o27 per one hundred. and Ireland.
whose birth rate is much smaller. decreases only
o28 per one hundred. somewhat aficr England
land and Germany. having cooffciont Of decrease
of oo2H per one hundred followed closely boy Bel
gum, 49, men passing 10y Ni',,i' 'n "br-s
per one hundred Aftor Franc comes Russia ool5s
sweden 0of. Switzerland OOPS and last como.
having loss than om per ono hundred Denmark
0VhN. Austria. o0l,i, Pomerlnia. oo13. ana hun
I'm Italy and Spain; while Scrua and Norway are
nearly stationary
AIDS To EYESlGHT It is certainly congratu-
latory fact that a majority of the human family
are born with unmpaired eycsight This remains
I'm such cases until the age of about forty when
the sight becomes defective from natural causes.
are ncarsighte,lness f,rsehiodnos. or that condi-
ton or irrogularity IT, the curvature of the front
part of the eye which makes ono meridian perfect
and ms opposite angle imperfect rendering glasses
necessary. another condition. too requiring glasses
IS weakness Of ihe cil.'ry process muscles ~nirm
c,rt.,'lti1, rilrro,, Such a- reading writing or
any Other work Tine l,tt.rs or objects looked at
I'm This case become blurred "aN'rng on ln1l,uh'I
appai'h'i! ''Hn". '"E''''d .. n "' iif ","stnr
continued Use 81 tn' eyes NlItDn, r,il'l ,
inflammation Of ui" INN m'mhranr '2Fe'liE 'ns
ty,n's or .Hs, Wn'n t".S i.,'i ,"" ,Iasse fbose
r. PiDirI.S ,ii. '..l,i Rim In no other in
@ ,.i i' ,, r, ~ otr, a. R'cfs .r. ,lcforma-
i've li,,J ~ rtmain .ioi
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u"n OF hfi''i'H. 'h ITS iI'''''' '''' ''''
90 human caanc'or one Of 'he most Emphatic
uttorancos +. that lv Nr Nihe,ker. the well
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me- he f,r,. of h.roiity upon character. mas
much as each succeeding generation has been
brought uP untsr ihr i4lu'n,' '' ,'r tbai
"tttl,n ,,is, il, frf,rry who are the offspring
~ .,,, ,.f,',.ts in s,n1. ,l.,- turn ont criminal
W. Wilkins ~, NOR. proves thar such result ia
caused hy am hereditary taint than does the fact
ff. oh of