REPORTS OF DIVISIONS Division of Sanitary Engineering - January, 1915 Examination and approval of plans for sewerage and sewage disposal: Middletown; Suffern; Saranac Lake; Saugerties; Scarsdale; Brookfield. Investigations and reports of complaints relating to sewage disposal, stream pollution and public nuisances: Waterloo; Highland; Big Moose; Schaghticoke; New Rochelle; Geneva. Investigations and reports of public water supplies: Sag Harbor; Richmondville; Larchmont. Rules and regulations enacted for protection of public water supplies: Arkport; Sylvan Beach. Investigations and reports of sanitary conditions of state institutions: Sonyea, Craig Colony for Epileptics; Manhattan State Hospital. Investigations and reports of operation and efficiency of sewage disposal plants: Mt. Vernon; Pleasantville; Rome. More important letters of advice were prepared and sent out to the following places: Parksville, water supply and sewage disposal; Oregon City, Oregon, chlorination treatment of water supplies; Callicoon, sewerage; Williamsville, water supply; Gouverneur, cesspools; Bovina, cesspools; Warwick, sewage disposal plants employing sand filtration. The demand for laboratory supplies, that is, diagnostic outfits, antitoxins, and similar preparations, is very little less than in December, and also the number of diagnostic examinations. As compared with the corresponding month of the previous year, however, the increase of the growth of the laboratory work in general is marked. During the month of January the diagnostic examinations for the venereal diseases has grown rapidly and judging from the letters received from physicians who have taken advantage of these opportunities has been deeply appreciated. During the month of January the Director of Laboratories visited Kingston. Newburgh, Rochester, Belmont, and Batavia. It is hoped that as a result of the cooperation of laboratories throughout the State with the central laboratory at Albany the efficiency of the work will be increased, uniform methods of procedure adopted, and both the scope and extent of the municipal and county laboratories will be greatly increased, thereby bringing laboratory service to the bedside in rural districts. Distribution, diagnostic outfits, diphtheria, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, syphilis, and other diseases, and culture tubes.. packages of diphtheria antitoxin 3000 units units 10000 units packages of tetanus antitoxin} 1500 units packages for the prophylaxis of ophthalmia neonatorum. packages of typhoid vaccine.. Examinations, diagnosis, diphtheria. tuberculosis *Amount reduced to 1500 units. Number of packages not known. Public Health Is Purchasable. Twenty-five Thousand Lives Can Be Saved In New York State Within The Next Five Years HERMANN M. BIGGS, M.D. HEALTH ORGANIZATION NUMBER THE AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION THE LAYMAN IN PUBLIC HEALTH REPORT OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH COUNCIL The attainment of right living conditions calls for hearty cooperation between individual and communityeffort on the part of the individual because the individual makes personality a power; effort on the part of the community because the strength of combined endeavor is required to meet all great problems Ellen H. Richards The American Public Health Association, W. T. Sedgwick, Ph.D... Can the Layman be Interested in Public Health Work? Lee K. Frankel... Report of the Public Health Council... A Diphtheria Carrier, B. R. Wakeman, M.D... Birth Rates and Infant Mortality for Cities: 1914 and 1913. Vital Statistics for February, 1915.. Reports of Divisions.. PAGE 103 104 105 109 112 113 114 122 123 125 130 Issued by the Division of Publicity and Education Entered as Second-class Matter March 20, 1914, under the Act of August 24, 1912 |