Military Government Of Porto Rico From October 18 1898 To April 30 1900 PDF Download

Excerpt from Military Government of Porto Rico: From October 18, 1898, to April 30, 1900 Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report covering the general sanitary condition of Porto Rico, the work of the officers and agents of the superior board of health, and a detailed statement of all moneys received and disbursed by the board during the period from June 29, 1899, the day on which the board was constituted, until May 1, 1900, when the military government of Porto Rico ceased to exist: From the day our forces occupied Porto Rico until June 30, 1899, public sanitation was conducted under emergency conditions. There was not, nor could there well have been, a maturely considered scheme of sanitary regulations. Everything was in a formative state so far as the relations between ourselves and these people were concerned, for we knew as little of their requirements as they knew of how we would meet them. So sanitation here resolved itself down to its simplest form, "policing," where this board found it. By reference to the file of General Orders, Headquarters Department of Porto Rico, from October 18, 1898, to June 29, 1899, it will be found that but three orders were issued which in any way related to public health. Paragraph 1, General Orders 18, series 1898, abolished the subdelegation of pharmacy; General Orders 37, series 1898, established boards of health in San Juan and the various other towns of the island, and General Orders 28, series 1899, defined the licensing functions of the subdelegation of medicine. These are exclusive of various orders and circulars relating to the general vaccination executed under direction of the writer as chief surgeon of the department. An examination of the codified sanitary laws of Porto Rico under the Spanish dominion will determine the fact that those pertaining to exterior quarantine were sufficiently comprehensive, thorough, and modern. They were not, however, vigorously executed and imported diseases frequently gained foothold here. 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.