Hygiene: a manual of personal and public health / by Arthur Newsholme.

  • Newsholme, Arthur, Sir, 1857-1943.
Date:
1884
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    (3) If the purity of the water is not ensured, it should le boiled before drinking, especially in tropical climates, and where many dogs are kept. Dogs should he kept out of the kitchen, lest ova accidentally gain access to articles of food. (4) The possibility of Jiies and mosquitoes acting as carriers of parasitic disease must be remembered. (5) Intestinal parasites, as a rule, occur in debilitated persons, and especially in those suffering from some abnormal condition of the mucous membrane. It is essential, therefore, that this should be treated, and that the general health should be improved by medicinal and other measures. CHAPTEE XXXYII. THE PREVENTION OF ENDEMIC DISEASES. Endemic and Epidemic Diseases. — Consumption. — Influence of Heredity, Suh-soil Drainage, Overcrowding, and Infection.—Scrofula.—Rheu- matic Fever.—Marsh Diseases. —Richets. The prevention of disease depends largely on a knowledge of its causes. Disease may bo due to a personal life not in accordance with physiological laws; or to some other cause acting ab extra, whether it be conditions of atmosphere or soil, or some contagion received into the system. We have already discussed the influence of habits, of clothing, exercise, sleep, and food on health, and have shown how errors in these respects may lead to disease. It now remains to consider more particularly the prevention of diseases, which are to a large extent independent of personal habits of life. Many such diseases are unfortunately not preventible; but there can be no doubt that with increased attention to the condition of air and water, of drainage of the soil and allied matters, the number of inevitable diseases wiU be greatly diminished. The chief preventible diseases come under one of two heads:—