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INDEX 



Puerperal fever, germ of, 266, 267 

 Pulmonary consumption, mortality 



from, 160-162 

 Pure cultures, 38 



Race susceptibility, 24 



Rats as agents in spread of plague, 



104 

 Relapsing fever, 145 



epidemics of, 146, 147 



germ of, 148 



in United States, 147 



predisposing causes, 151 



prevention of, 152 



Salt as an antiseptic, 41 

 Sanitoria in treatment of tubercu- 

 losis, 169 



Saprophytes, 86, 267 

 Scarlet fever, 223 



history of, 223 



how communicated, 223 



mortality from, 225 



prevention of, 226 



Second attacks of infectious diseases, 



73-74 



Septicaemia, 19 

 Sewers, sanitary value of, 127 

 Ship fever, 157 

 Sick-room, disinfection of, 51 

 Skin, infection through, 21 

 Smallpox, 214 



disinfection in, 220 



duration of, 220 



germ of, 219 



history of, 214 



mortality from, 215 



second attacks of, 74 

 Snake poison, antitoxin of, 85 

 Soda as a germicide, 59 

 Spirilla, 10 



Spirillum of cholera, 121 



of relapsing fever, 149 

 Spores, 12, 39 



of tetanus bacillus, 273, 274 



resistance to heat, 44 

 Sputum, disinfection of, 171 

 Staphylococcus pyogenes aureus, 265 

 Steam as a disinfectant, 44 

 Streptococcus pyogenes, 267 

 Summer complaint, 140 



Sulphate of copper as a germicide, 62 



iron as a germicide, 29 

 Sulphur fumigation, 53, 54 

 Sulphurous acid as a germicide, 58 

 Sunlight as a disinfectant, 48 

 Susceptibility, individual, 25 



due to alcoholism, 68 



race, 23 

 Surra disease, 22 



Tetanus, 272 



bacillus of, 273 



mortality from, 276-278 



toxin, 273-275 

 Texas fever, 21 



Thermal death-point of bacteria, 45 

 Ticks, infection by, 21 

 Tonsils, infection through, 15 

 Toy pistols, danger of, 276 

 Trichinosis, 19 

 Trismus neonatorum, 277 

 Tsetse-fly disease, 22 

 Tubercle bacillus, 160 



destruction of, 176 



discovery of, 159 



in milk, 175 

 Tubercular joint disease, 163 

 Tuberculosis, 159 



communication of, 159-163 



in Europe, 166 



in New York City, 161, 178 



influence of occupation, 165 

 race, 166 



mortality from, 160, 162 



of bowels, 163 



predisposing causes of, 164 



