MAXIMS OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 



ByO. W. WIGHT, M.D., Health Officer of Detroit. 16mo, cloth, 75 

 cents. 



" The appearance of this hand-book is most timely. There is a vague appre- 

 hension that the cholera may visit the United States next year. Everybody 

 wants to know what to do for the exclusion or limitation of the dread disease. 

 Dr. O. W. Wight, to whom we owe these 'Maxims of Public Health.' speaks 

 with the voice of authority. He has been for six years Health Officer of Detroit, 

 and has made epidemics the subject of patient aud earnest study. Here we have 

 the fruits of all his experience and observation. His book ought to be placed in 

 the hands of every person connected in any way with health boards in all parts 

 of the country. It is invaluable for instant reference in an emergency. J)r. 

 Wight proves his competency to speak on this subject by the emphasis he puts 

 on cleanliness of houses and streets as the best safeguard against pestilence." 

 New York Journal of Commerce. 



" Dr. Wight is to be commended, not only for reiterating the dangers to which 

 we are subject, both in city and country, from unsanitary surroundings, but 

 because he has clothed his thoughts in virile, understandable English. He has 

 the ordinary scientific view of filth as the breeder of certain contagious diseases 

 scarlet fever, typhoid fever, diphtheria and the like but has a new idea con- 

 cerning the removal of sewage before it putrefies. As he puts it in the preface, 

 ' the only way to get rid of sewer-gas is not to make any.' It is a pleasure to 

 read his thoughts ; they can not be other than a great boon to the unprofessional 

 man, for whom they are specially written. 1 " Hartford Evening 2'ost. 



"The intelligent householder who has no time, perhaps no inclination, for 

 systematic studies, may read these'maxims with a quick comprehension of their 

 import, and find hints that will save himself and his loved ones unspeakable 

 pain and sorrow. To say nothing of his success as a medical practitioner, Dr. 

 Wight gives in this valuable book the result of six years of personal experience 

 insanitary administration. We heartily commend it to the careful reading of 

 all who would be prepared to ward off any epidemic that should make its appear- 

 ance in their midst, or who would have everything about their premises of the 

 most healthful character." Boston Home Journal. 



" Dr. Wight's heart is at his pen's point in every page of his book, and he is 

 as exhaustive upon every phase of human life and suffering and exposure and 

 economy, as he is on the school." St. Paul Dispatch. 



"A little volume which condenses within less than two hundred pages a vast 

 amount of sanitary science . . . The book is evidently the result of long and 

 close attention to the subject, and, being designed for the general reader, it gives 

 the results of investigation and experiment without burdening them with de- 

 tails of the processes by which they have been reached. It is a book which should 

 be studied by all." Chicago Daily Times. 



" This is a timely and most instructive as well as interesting series of para- 

 graphs on sanitary subjects, which ought to be read in every household and 

 board of health." Newark Daily Advertiser. 



"He plunges into the subject of city drainage, handling the topic with euch 

 skill and precision as prove him a past master of hygienic science. Every 

 possible phase of house, stable, and city drainage, and sanitation, is explained 

 and discussed." Detroit Evening News. 



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