Annual report of the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service of the United States for the fiscal year ... 18741874 |
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12 District ADMITTED EACH MONTH April Atlantic District District Atlantic District Southern August average Barrancas black vomit Bright's Disease causes cent cholera chronic condition cost crew December deck died Diseases and NUMBER District Southern Atlantic ended June 30 England epidemic Erysipelas February feet Fistula forecastle Fort Barrancas furnished gonorrhoea Gulf hospital dues hospital relief hygiene infected Inflammation Injuries treated January July June 30 Lakes District less Local Diseases malarial March marine Marine-Hospital Service Middle Atlantic District Mississippi Months and Districts mortality Navy Northern Atlantic District November number of deaths number of patients occurred October Ohio District Orleans Pacific District Pensacola physician port present quarantine result Rheumatism river sailors sanitary scurvy seamen September ship Shreveport small-pox statistics steamer Supervising Surgeon taken sick tion Total deaths total number TREATED EACH MONTH Ulcer United States Marine-Hospital V.-Tabular Statement venereal diseases vessels yellow fever yellow-fever York
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Página 118 - One ounce of coffee, or cocoa, or chocolate, may be substituted for onequarter ounce of tea; molasses for sugar, the quantity to be one-half more; one pound of potatoes or yams, one-half pound flour or rice; one-third pint of pease or one-quarter pint of barley may be substituted for each other.
Página 118 - ... or one-quarter pint of barley may be substituted for each other. When fresh meat Is Issued, the proportion to be two pounds per man per day, In lieu of salt meat. Flour, rice, and pease, beef and pork, may be substituted for each other, and, for potatoes, onions may be substituted.
Página 130 - Author refers was full of rats, and he has the most vivid recollection of one of these animals on more than one occasion finding its way into the hammock where he slept. In the West Indies the place was so suffocatingly hot that the sailors invariably slept wherever they could find a clear place upon deck or in the tops ; and in winter, when approaching the English Channel, or when on an intermediate voyage to the Bay of Fundy, it was as bitterly cold, no stoves or fires of any kind being allowed...
Página 129 - 'tween decks " at the extremity of the bow, may have been about twenty-one feet in width at the after or widest part, tapering gradually away to a narrow point at the stem. The length in midships was somewhere about twenty feet, but much less as the sides of the vessel were approached. The height was five feet from deck to beam, or about five feet nine inches from deck to deck at the greatest elevation between the beams; the only approach to it being through a scuttle or hole in the main deck, about...
Página 130 - Here, however, these fourteen sailors and apprentices slept, washed, dressed and had their food, except in fine weather when they took their meals on deck. Their food...
Página 135 - Gull, and while adhering to his ruling in that case, and remarking that " the admiralty may be styled, not improperly, the human providence which watches over the rights and interests of those ' who go down to the sea in ships and do their business on the great waters...
Página 123 - No prison, certainly none of modern days, so wretched but life within its walls is preferable, on the score of physical comfort, to the quarters and the life of the sailor on the vast majority of merchant vessels. No gaol dietary so meagre, no penal servitude so exacting, no exertion of authority so unrestrained and brutal, no such utter want of care and forethought for health and life of convict or felon, as are the rule, and not the exception, for the man before the mast, would be tolerated, if...
Página 230 - No. 44, 1872) gives an abstract of the results which follow varnishing the skin and suppression of the cutaneous secretion. (1) A few hours before the death of the animals so treated, clonic and tetanic spasms appear in various groups of muscles, while the temperature in the rectum sinks in a marked degree. (2) Enveloping the animals in wadding did not serve to raise the temperature or arrest the fatal result. (3) Respiration of oxygen proved ineffectual to resuscitate the animals. (4) In the stomach...
Página 130 - There was no room for tables, chairs, of stools, so that the tops of their sea-chests in which they kept their clothes and all their possessions, were substituted for those useful and necessary household articles. In fact so closely were these chests packed that it was difficult to sit astride them, the mode which the sailors found most convenient for taking their meals, especially in rough weather. But the whole of this limited space was not appropriated to the use of the crew, for it contained...
Página 224 - ... promoted by a moist atmosphere, and probably by the presence of decomposing organic matter. " 3. The poison is portable in ships, goods, clothing, etc., and a minute quantity is capable of giving rise to an extensive epidemic. "4. Exposure to a temperature of 32° Fahrenheit completely destroys it. " 5. It may remain for an unknown length of time in a quiescent state, when not subjected to a freezing temperature, or exposed to the conditions necessary to its multiplication, and may again become...