The woman citizen's library : a systematic course of reading in preparation for the larger citizenship . e in the germs of the disease and inoculatethem into a second person at some later time. Inpneumonic plague the lungs are the seat of the infec-tion and the nose and throat discharges may be highlydangerous. Plague is primarily a disease of certain rodents;notably rats. Mans infection seems rather is carried from rat to rat and from rat to manby fleas. The prevention of plague resolves itself intoa fight against rats and other rodents and fleas. Ofcourse, isolation of the
The woman citizen's library : a systematic course of reading in preparation for the larger citizenship . e in the germs of the disease and inoculatethem into a second person at some later time. Inpneumonic plague the lungs are the seat of the infec-tion and the nose and throat discharges may be highlydangerous. Plague is primarily a disease of certain rodents;notably rats. Mans infection seems rather is carried from rat to rat and from rat to manby fleas. The prevention of plague resolves itself intoa fight against rats and other rodents and fleas. Ofcourse, isolation of the sick, protection from vermin,and disinfection of all discharges are very fight against rats as carried on consists of attempt-ing to do away with their breeding and feeding places,and by trapping and poisoning, etc. Deratization isexpensive, demanding changes in the construction ofstables, markets, wharves, and other places where ratsabound. Rats are apt to be very numerous on ships,and plague infected rats are carried all over the worldin this manner. Precautions must be taken to keep. TWO RESTAURANT KIIX HENS Top—Kitchen in a basement restaurant with toilet In room Bottom—A modern, ideal kitchen, good light and air, clean and sanitary PUBLIC HEALTH 2287 rats from getting ashore and the holds fumigated withpoisonous gases to kill the animals. PUERPERAL SEPTICEMIA.—Deaths in Regis-tration Area, 1911: 4,376. Puerperal fever, frequently called child-bed fever,is a preventable disease. It is produced by an organismbelonging to the group of streptococci. Formerly itwas of very much greater importance than it is now. The disease is largely produced through impropermethods employed at childbirth. With the advent ofmodern surgical methods the occurrence of the diseasehas been greatly decreased. Infection usually takesplace through dirty hands, instruments, etc., whichhave previously been infected with the streptococcus. PNEUMONIA.— Deaths in Registration Area,191
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