INDEX 



491 



Chemical products of bacteria 



and bacteriological examination of 



water compared, 55 

 tests for nitrification, 128-132 

 Chemiotaxis, 11 



Chloride of lime as a germicide, 440 

 Cholera, 384 



bacillus of, 385 

 diagnosis of, 387 

 and nitration, 66 . 

 and milk, 223 

 Chromogenic bacteria, 406 

 Clams and bacterial infection, 266 

 Clark's process, 64 

 Classification, 5 

 Clowes on bacterial treatment of sewage, 



164 



Coccus, definition of, 6 

 Cockles and bacterial infection, 263-266 

 Collingridge on ice-cream poisoning, 274 

 Colon bacillus, see B. coli communis, 46 

 Comma bacillus, 385 

 Commensalism, 133 



Commissions on food preservatives, 230 

 leprosy, 399 

 plague, 394, 425 

 sewage disposal, 49, 157, 161, 162, 



172, 177, 261, 262, 469, 485 

 tuberculosis (1898) 270, (1895) 339, 



343, (1901) 345 

 vaccination, 417 

 Composition of bacteria, 9 

 Conditions affecting bacteria in water, 



60 



Contact beds for sewage, 169 

 Contagion, 284 



Contamination, organisms of, 56 

 Corrosive sublimate as disinfectant, 



440 



Counter (Wolfhugel), 465 

 Cover-glass preparations, 455 

 Cream, bacteria in, 240 

 Crenothrix polyspora, 36 

 Cresol as a germicide, 441 

 Cultivation beds, 169 

 Culture media, 16 

 Cultures, anaerobic, 117 

 hanging drop, 455 

 plate, 453 

 pure, 456 

 shake, 467 

 sub-culture of, 456 



DECOMPOSITION bacteria, 123 



Delepine on bacteria in milk, 192-194 



Denitrifying bacteria, 123 



Dental caries, 80 



Deodorants, 433 



Desiccation, 18 



Diagnosis, 463 



Diarrhrea of infants, 304 



and milk, 223 



conditions favourable to, 304, 308 



and soil, 308 



bacteria of, 305 

 Diphtheria, 287-296 



antitoxin of, 425-431 



bacillus of, 288 



bacillus in throat, 293 



toxins of, 426 



prevention of, 294 



and milk supply, 211 



and school influence, 292 



pseudo-bacillus of, 295 



diagnosis of, 290, 481 



Diplococcus, definition of, 7 

 of gonorrhoea, 314 

 in pneumonia, 320 



Directions for estimating disinfectants, 



etc., 434 



Disease, production of, 280-287 

 Diseases of beer, 110-113 



of plants, 32 



conveyed by water, 53 



and soil, 145 

 Disinfectants, 439 

 Disinfection, 432-451 



means of, 435 



by heat, 436 



by chemicals, 439-444 



of a room, 444 



of walls, 445 



of bedding, 445 



of garments, 445 



of excreta, 445 



of wounds, 445 



of hands, 446 



of books, etc. , 446 



of stables, vans, etc., 446 



after phthisis, 447 



after small-pox, 449 



after scarlet fever, 449 



after diphtheria, 450 



after typhoid, 450 



after cholera, 450 



after plague, 450 



standards of, 434 



Domestic purification of water, 70 

 Doriga on rats and plague infection, 390 

 Dunham's solution, 388 



