INDEX 



293 



Tuberculosis, prevention of, 170 



susceptibility to, 164 



treatment of, 167 



Typhoid bacillus, discovery of, 136 



description of, 136 



destruction of, 138 



in urine, 135 

 Typhoid fever, 126 



bacillus of, 138 



mortality from, 126-134 



preventive inoculations, 139 



second attacks of, 74 

 Typhus fever, 154 



causes of, 157 



epidemics of, 154-156 



in United States, 156 



mortality from, 158 



Uncinaria Americana, 142 



United States Army, mortality in, 143 



Urine, typhoid bacilli in, 135 



Vaccination, 76, 221 



discovery of, 218 



value of, 216-218 

 Vaccine virus, 36 



Violet light, germicidal action of, 49 



Water-born diseases, 15 

 Water supply, infection of, 133 

 Whitewash as a disinfectant, 59 

 Whooping-cough, 211 



mortality from, 212 



prevention of, 213 

 Wound infections, 19, 264 



Yellow fever, 252 



board to investigate, 255 



epidemics in United States, 253- 



254 



geographic range, 252-254 



prevention of, 258-265 



transmission of, 255 



