with a glass stopper, the bottle then filled with twenty per cent solution of pure glycerine, and the whole sent by express or special messenger to the Director of the State Laboratory of Hygiene, Ann Arbor, with request for an immediate biological test for rabies, and a report of the result. Such investigations are made there at cost. A person bitten by an animal supposed to be rabid should very promptly consult a physician; and without waiting for the physician should employ all practicable means for dislodging from the wound any germs of virus which may have entered there; washing the wound freely with boiled water, and by means of a syringe if possible. Rabies is a 66 disease dangerous to the public health" and as such should be promptly reported to the health officer, and promptly restricted by him in accordance with Act 137, Laws of 1883, and other laws relating to the public health. If the disease occurs in an animal, the health officer or local board should also, in compliance with Sections 5 and 6, Act No. 125, Laws of 1889 (C. L. 1897, Sections 5631 and 5632), promptly report the fact to the State Live Stock Commission,-the guardians of the safety of animals; but under no circumstances should the local health authorities fail to guard the public health and life from this fearful disease. Animals bitten by a supposed rabid dog should be promptly isolated by the local board of health and kept thus until the State Live Stock Commission shall have been informed of the facts and takes charge of the animal or animals, thereby relieving the local board of health. This is required by Section 6, Act 125, Laws of 1899 (Section 5632, C. L. 1897). Whether in man or animal, the disease should be promptly reported to the State Board of Health. TYROTOXICON POISONING IN MICHIGAN IN 1905. In July, 1905, sixteen persons were reported to have suffered from tyrotoxicon poisoning in the township of Barry, Barry county, from eating cheese sold at one of the stores. The grocer was notified by the local health officer to stop the sale of the cheese. ALLEGED NUISANCES IN MICHIGAN IN 1905. During the year 1905, communications relative to ninety-three alleged nuisances in Michigan were received at the office of the State Board of Health. The causes to which the alleged nuisances mentioned in these communications were attributed, may be classified as follows: Filthy pig pens, 10; stagnant water, 9; barnyard and manure heaps, 8; insanitary drains, 8; slaughtering and slaughter houses, 7; insufficiently buried animals or dead animals on ground, 6; insanitary surroundings, 5; refuse dumped on ground, 4; pulp from sugar beet factories, 3; refuse from creameries, 3; sewage from kitchen and privy, 3; water closets, 3; privy vaults, 3; cesspools, 3; pomace from cider mills, 2; refuse from starch factory, 1; drainage from salting station, 1; odor from fertilizer, 1; odor from chemical works, 1; odor from fish bait factory, 1; fish offal left on dock, 1; scrapings from tannery left on ground, 1; refuse from pickle factory, 1; well water causing typhoid fever, 1; neglected cattle yard, 1; flooding of lake, 1; meat market, 1; diseased dead animals fed to hogs, 1; mulching of berry bushes, 1; bees kept in village, 1; and cedar bark in lake, 1. Whenever complaint of an alleged nuisance is received at this office, the president of the local board of health whose duty it is to act, is usually informed of the nature of the nuisance, and is requested to investigate the same. At the same time the sections of law, and pamphlet publications of this Board pertaining to nuisances and to the duties of local boards of health relative thereto, are sent to him and also to the person making complaint. Two regular forms of letters are used for this purpose. The first is sent to the person making complaint of the nuisance, the other is sent to the president of the board of health of the locality where the nuisance is reported to exist. In articles on alleged nuisances, published in previous annual reports of this Board, attention was called to the fact that a large proportion of the communications received at this office in regard to alleged nuisances came from local health officers and other township, city and village officials asking for information relative to points of law concerning nuisances, or requesting advice as to their duties, or to the proper legal procedure necessary to effect the prevention or abatement of nuisances. The correspondence of 1905, shows a continued desire on the part of the local health officials for advice and cooperation of this Board, which has been freely and cheerfully given, and it is believed with results beneficial to the public health. The State Board of Health has no authority to enforce or order the abatement of a nuisance. Its powers in this respect are advisory. And while the board is willing to render such advice as it may be able to give on any subject, it is often the case in regard to nuisances, that prosecuting attorneys or other lawyers on the ground and acquainted with the facts, are in better position to give legal advice than is the office of the State Board of Health. The Secretary of the State Board of Health is always glad to learn of the efforts of local boards to abate nuisances, and what success attends those efforts, and solicits correspondence upon this subject. However, the State Board of Health cannot undertake to do for local boards that which the law has so well provided for their doing for themselves. In showing them how they can help themselves it really does more for them than to do their work; for when the local board has mastered the situation and removed a nuisance, it has secured a vantage ground which a distant authority could not so well secure and hold. special investigations by the sanitary engineer of the. 30-35 26-28 Bulletins, "Public Health, Michigan," entered at second class rates. 29 fiscal year, 1906... 22 Teachers' Sanitary, fiscal year, 1906.. 21-22 Cattle, tuberculosis in, in Michigan in 1905.. 168 Central State Normal School, Mt. Pleasant, examination of plans for new heating plant 12-13 Cholera, Winter.. 109 Communicable diseases (indexed Diseases, communicable"). Conference of Embalmers' Examining Boards and State Boards of Health, report of delegate 10 in Grand Rapids, special investigation of.. 43 29 29 43 121 antitoxin treatment in. and croup in Michigan and other states and countries, comparative mortality from duration of sickness in. 110 120-121 120 Disease, prevention of, suggested Rules and Regulations for. Diseases, communicable, in Michigan, in 1905 and in preceding years.. of animals, dangerous to man, in Michigan in 1905. to be reported and placarded vs. diseases to be reported and restricted. Eastern Michigan Asylum, Pontiac, examination of plans for new building at the. 168-171 11 38-42 170 107-108 15-16 19 165 11 Page. Examination and licensing of embalmers.. of plans for State buildings. Excreta, disposal of, proposed State supervision of the methods of Farcy (indexed "Glanders"). Fever, puerperal, in Michigan in 1905. scarlet, diagram of deaths in Michigan from, 1898-1903. in Michigan, contracted from a case of so called measles. from infected books and papers. 19 12-18 38-42 166 43 134 133-134 136 134 general prevalence of.. 127-128 geographical distribution of.. 129-132 in 1905 and preceding years. 127-137 influence of age and sex in.. 136 periods of incubation in..... 136 diagram of deaths in Michigan from, 1898-1903. geographical distribution of. in 1905 and preceding years. prevalence of in urban and rural localities. spread from one locality to another. in Wexford County lumber camps, investigation of yellow, in Michigan in 1905. Fireworks, dangerous (see "Tetanus"). Garbage, disposal of in Detroit, inspection of.. 135-136 105-106 103 43 106-107 103-104 83-84 85-95 83-109 83 87-95 102-105 96-97 98-102 106 92 164 29 169 33-35 Glanders (Farcy) in horses in Michigan in 1905. Hartford, report on proposed use of basement rooms in school at... Hydrophobia (indexed Rabies"). Immigrants, measles brought into Michigan by.. possibly exposed to communicable diseases and destined to settle in Michigan. 146 22 11 166 29, 32-33 29-30 3 sources of contagium and predisposing influences in. traumatic, tubercular and, in Michigan, 1899-1905. 11 147-148 43 72-73 80-81 71, 74 75-78 in 1905 and preceding years. 71-82 80-81 75, 78 82 78 79-80 75 75 Michigan Agricultural College, examination of plans for new dormitory building. Mumps (Parotitis) in Michigan in 1905. Northern State Normal School, Marquette, examination of plans for additions to the Neostyle work, summary of.. Nuisance at Armada, special investigation relative to.. suggested Rules and Regulations for prevention of. Page. 13-14 165 21 13 18 30-32 171-172 28 Poisoning, tyrotoxicon, in Michigan in 1905. 171 work.. Public Health, Michigan, bulletins, entered at second class rates. fiscal year, 1906.. Puerperal fever (indexed "Fever, puerperal"). -resolution relative to reporting and placarding of. Rabies (Hydrophobia) in Michigan in 1905. official public notice relative to the restriction of. Rotheln, resolution relative to reporting and placarding of. Sanitary Engineer, State, special investigations by the.. Scarlet fever (indexed "Fever, scarlet"). School at Hartford, report on proposed use of basement rooms in. Schools, medical inspection of in Detroit, report on. public, suggested Rules and Regulations for the prevention of disease in. Sewage purification plant at Jackson, inspection of.. Sewerage system in Detroit, inspection of.. Smallpox, diagram of deaths in Michigan from, 1898-1903 in Chippewa County, special investigation of.. in Lowell, special investigation of.. in Michigan, duration of sickness in.. general prevalence of. geographical distribution of. in 1905 and preceding years. localities in which the disease was unusually prevalent 29 22 11 169-171 170 170 170-171 11 30-35 33-35 29, 32-33 23-25 29 27 32-35 29-30 29 43 164 164 161 148-150 151-154 148-164 153-154 161 161 152-154 161-163 155 155-160 11 sources of contagium in. spread from one locality to another. Spring waters, analysis of for determination of chlorine. State Board of Health (indexed "Board of Health, State"). Teachers' Sanitary Bulletins, fiscal year, 1906. Tetanus (Lock-jaw) in Michigan in 1905. the prevention of.. Tuberculosis, diagram of deaths in Michigan from, 1898-1903.. Toy-pistols (see "Tetanus"). in cattle in Michigan in 1905... in Michigan and other states and countries, comparative mortality from. 21-22 35-37 43 168 57 69 65 |