Seventh Annual Report Of The State Board Of Health Of The State Of Ohio PDF Download

Excerpt from Seventh Annual Report of the State Board of Health, of the State of Ohio: For the Year Ending October 31, 1892 The seventh annual report of the State Board of Health for the year ending October 31, 1892, is herewith presented. Personnel Of The Board. One change in the membership of the Board has been made since the last report. The appointment of Dr. A. J. Scott to fill the unexpired term of Dr. Joseph L. Anderson, not having been confirmed by the Senate, Dr. Byron Stanton, of Cincinnati, was appointed to fill the vacancy so created. Dr. Stanton's appointment was duly confirmed. Small-Pox In Southern Ohio. An outbreak of small-pox occurred in the southern part of the state in April, 1892, which threatened to become widespread. Owing to mistakes in diagnosis - the disease having been, for forty days, treated as chickenpox - no measures were taken to prevent its spread, and hundreds of persons were exposed. The origin of the disease is of much interest. A merchant living in Pomeroy went to New York City to purchase goods, and about ten days after his return was taken ill with headache, backache, and some fever; no eruption was noticed. A physician who was consulted, prescribed a plaster for the pain in the back. The man was kept from his business a day or two and was not ailing more than a week. About ten days after he was taken sick, his son, aged nineteen months, was taken with vomiting, headache and fever, followed by a general eruption, which, in many respects, closely resembled the eruption of chickenpox. The disease was so diagnosed by the attending physician, and subsequently by a council of five physicians. One other physician who saw the disease pronounced it small-pox; but the opinion of the council was accepted by the health authorities, and no precautions were taken. 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.