Texas State Journal Of Medicine 4 1908 1909 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Texas Medical Journal, Vol. 24: Established July, 1885; July, 1908, to June, 1909 Dr. B. F. Gibson, of Huntsville, next made a short talk. Dr. Gibson is State Prison Physician, and he warned the local health officers about the prevalence of trachoma among the convicts of the State. The local health officer, before shipping a prisoner to the penitentiaries, should examine him for trachoma. If the pris oner has trachoma, he should be segregated and the transfer agent should be notified that it is a trachomatous patient at the time he leaves the place of conviction. Dr. B. F. Johnson, of Stockdale, Wilson county, was next heard from. He stated that his county had a very efficient county health officer. An epidemic of smallpox had gotten started, and there were about twenty cases, but the prompt action of the school trus tees in requiring all the children to be vaccinated saved 'a more widespread epidemic. In Wilson county all contagious diseases are reported. Vital statistics are reported carefully by the physi eiaus, and the midwives bring the reports to the doctors to get them signed. Mosquitoes are rare in this county. 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.