can be kept twelve months. The above is the largest single item of actions instituted. The following is a summary of the actions instituted and convictions secured for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1915. Violation Reports made, 297, on which the following actions were instituted: 165 of Sec. 337 336 336a 339a Keeping food in storage beyond the time limit Not marking food - receiving impure food Transferring food from one warehouse to another 339b Returning food to cold storage after releasing it for sale 339c 4 Rule 2 II 12 Failure to represent cold storage food as such. Failure to properly protect foods Failure to display sign where cold storage food is sold Convictions secured: 42 sentences suspended Note Actions dismissed, found not guilty, insufficient evidence, not included in the above. Major Albert Veeder, A.M., M.D., Health Officer of the Village of Lyons, N. Y., died on November 16, 1915, aged 67. Dr. Veeder had been health officer of the village since 1887. He was among the first to call attention to the possibility of the spread of typhoid fever and dysentery by means of flies. For many years he was a valued contributor to medical journals, and the author of numerous monographs on geological and astronomical subjects. Dr. Veeder is survived by his wife, two daughters and two sons; both of the last are members of the State Hospital staff in Rochester. REPORTS OF DIVISIONS Division of Sanitary Engineering - November-December, 1915 Examination and approval of plans for sewerage and sewage disposal: Cattaraugus County Tuberculosis Hospital; Eastchester; Canandaigua (Cheshire School); Greenwich; Ogdensburg; Binghamton; Sullivan; Greece; Clay; Brockport, Saranac Inn; Delhi; Watertown. Investigations and reports of complaints relating to sewage disposal, stream pollution and public nuisances: Marion; Walton; New York City (Edgewater, N. J., nuisance); Beekman; Wingdale; Endicott; Binghamton; Walden; Yonkers; Spencerport; Pawling; Castile; Evans Mills; Greenport. Investigation and reports of public water supplies: Keeseville; Middleport; Sonyea; Downsville; Pine Hill; Slingerlands; Delmar and other municipalities supplied by the Suburban Water Co.; Fairport; Pine Plains; Port Jefferson; Whitesville; Hamden; Margaretville; Delhi; East Syracuse; Canastota; Deposit; Smyrna; Homer; St. Johnsville; Tuxedo Park; Florida; Washingtonville; Bovina Center (water rules enacted); New York City (Ashokan Water Rules approved); Cold Spring; Forest Lawn; Sidney Center; Little Falls; Frankfort; Poland; Deansboro; Rome; Camden; Sandy Creek; Cincinnatus; Lockport; Palmyra. Division of Laboratories and Research-November-December, 1915 November, 1915 Distribution of diagnostic outfits, diphtheria, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, syphilis, and other diseases, and culture tubes packages of diphtheria antitoxin, 3000 units.. packages of diphtheria antitoxin, 1500 units. packages of tetanus antitoxin, 10,000 units.. packages of tetanus antitoxin, 1500 units.. packages for the prophylaxis of ophthalmia neonatorum.. packages of typhoid vaccine... Examinations for diagnosis, diphtheria.. tuberculosis typhoid fever syphilis gonorrhea miscellaneous Examinations of samples of water, chemical. bacterial December, 1915 Distribution of diagnostic outfits, diphtheria, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, syphilis, and other disease, and culture tubes.. packages of diphtheria antitoxin, 3000 units. packages of diphtheria antitoxin, 1500 units. packages of tetanus antitoxin, 10,000 units.. packages of tetanus antitoxin, 1500 units... packages for the prophylaxis of ophthalmia neonatorum.. packages of typhoid vaccine... Examinations for diagnosis, diphtheria. tuberculosis typhoid fever syphilis gonorrhea 14 53 miscellaneous Examinations of samples of water, chemical. bacterial 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. CANCER NUMBER WHAT PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CANCER THE NEED OF BETTER EDUCATION IN THE EARLY RECOGNITION OF CANCER THE STATISTICAL EVIDENCE OF CANCER INCREASE THE LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS OF CANCER The State Department of Health extends to the City Department of Health hearty congratulations on the completion of a half century of noteworthy achievements in the service of Humanity Monthly Bulletin New York State Department of Health MATTHIAS NICOLL, Jr. M.D. Editor The Statistical Evidence of Cancer Increase, Frederick L. Hoffman, LL.D... The Laboratory Diagnosis of Cancer, Harvey R. Gaylord, M.D... What People Should Know About Cancer, Francis Carter Wood, M.D..... The Need of Better Education in the Early Recognition of Cancer, John A. Hart- Division of Publicity and Education MARCH, 1916 THE UNSOLVED MYSTERY This number of the HEALTH NEWS presents to its readers authoritative expressions of opinion in regard to cancer, which taken together represent in brief the sum total of our knowledge of the nature, prevalence, and treatment of the disease. It cannot be denied that the present outlook for an early solution of this, the greatest pathologic mystery of our day, is by no means reassuring. The underlying principal which releases from physiological restraint the growth of body cells, and allows them to overrun their normally prescribed boundaries continues to elude a host of scientific workers in many parts of the world. Not only in the laboratory but also in the field of statistics some common causative factor is being diligently sought, thus far without definite results. cancer. Except in avoiding certain specified causes of local irritation there is today nothing that any one of us can do to prevent the occurrence of On the other hand, there is incontrovertible testimony as to the probability of its cure in a large percentage of cases, if taken in time. That cure consists in the complete surgical removal of the growth at the earliest possible moment. Early diagnosis, early removal - there is not now, nor has there ever been any other successful method of curing the disease. The Commissioner of Health takes this opportunity to warn the people of the State against the expenditure of money, often ill-afforded, the raising of false hopes, and above all the waste of precious time through the use of alleged cancer cures and consultations with their unscrupulous purveyors. The State Department of Health may be counted upon to investigate. and pronounce upon the value of any specific treatment for cancer at the earliest possible moment. No such treatment is known to exist at the present time. If this number of the HEALTH NEWS has no other result than to arouse in the minds of the readers a morbid dread of cancer it will indeed fall far short of its purpose - the creation of a healthy vigilance which leads to the taking of expert advice on the first appearance of danger signals of the disease. |