Rural Hygiene, by Henry N. Ogden, C.E

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Author

Ogden, Henry N. (Henry Neely), 1868-

Title

Rural Hygiene

Credits

Produced by Tom Roch, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images produced by Core Historical Literature in Agriculture (CHLA), Cornell University.)

Language

English

LoC Class

RA: Medicine: Public aspects of medicine

Subject

Rural health

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Text

eBook-No.

29555

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29555

Release Date

July 31, 2009

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.The Rural Science Series — Edited by L. H. BAILEY — RURAL HYGIENE
3. 3.HENRY N. OGDEN, C.E. — PROFESSOR OF SANITARY ENGINEERING IN COLLEGE OF CIVIL ENGINEERING, CORNELL UNIVERSITY SPECIAL ASSISTANT ENGINEER, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.CONTENTS
6. 6.LIST OF FIGURES
7. 7.RURAL HYGIENE
8. 8.CHAPTER I — VITAL STATISTICS OF RURAL LIFE — Table I. Death-rates in Various Countries — Table II. Showing Varying Death-rates in Different Parts of New York State — Table III. Death-rates in New York City and Elsewhere in New York State , 1898-1908 — Table IV. Table showing Percentage of Children in Otsego and Putnam Counties , 1860-1900 — Table V. Showing Deaths from all Causes in the United States for the Years 1901-1905, at Various Age Periods — Table VI. Showing Death-rates per 100,000 Population from Typhoid Fever in Places Indicated — Table VII. Showing Death-rates from Typhoid Fever per 100,000 Population in New York State as Indicated — Table VIII. Mortality from Typhoid Fever in the Cities of New York State, showing Total Deaths from Typhoid Fever and Deaths per 100,000 Population — Table IX. Showing Deaths from Tuberculosis per 100,000 Population in the United States — FOOTNOTES:
9. 9.CHAPTER II — LOCATION OF A HOUSE—SOIL AND SURROUNDINGS
10. 10.CHAPTER III — CONSTRUCTION OF HOUSES AND BARNS WITH REFERENCE TO HEALTHFULNESS
11. 11.CHAPTER IV — VENTILATION
12. 12.CHAPTER V
13. 13.CHAPTER VI — SOURCES OF WATER-SUPPLY — Table X. Showing Loss of Head by Friction, for Different Quantities of Flow, and in Different Sizes of Pipes
14. 14.CHAPTER VII — QUALITY OF WATER
15. 15.CHAPTER VIII — WATER-WORKS CONSTRUCTION — TABLE XI — TABLE XII — TABLE XIII — TABLE XIV — TABLE XV. Dimensions and List Prices of Water Tanks. — Wooden Stave Tanks — GALVANIZED IRON TANKS
16. 16.CHAPTER IX — PLUMBING
17. 17.CHAPTER X — SEWAGE DISPOSAL
18. 18.CHAPTER XI — PREPARATION AND CARE OF MILK AND MEAT — FOOTNOTES:
19. 19.CHAPTER XII — FOODS AND BEVERAGES — TABLE XVI — TABLE XVII
20. 20.CHAPTER XIII — PERSONAL HYGIENE
21. 21.CHAPTER XIV — THEORIES OF DISEASE
22. 22.CHAPTER XV — DISINFECTION
23. 23.CHAPTER XVI — TUBERCULOSIS AND PNEUMONIA — Table XVIII. Showing Deaths From Various Infectious Diseases In The United States, 1908
24. 24.CHAPTER XVII — TYPHOID FEVER
25. 25.CHAPTER XVIII — CHILDREN'S DISEASES — Table XIX. Table showing Deaths and Percentages from Measles and Scarlet Fever for Different Ages in United States Registration Area for 1907
26. 26.CHAPTER XIX — PARASITICAL DISEASES (MALARIA, YELLOW FEVER, HOOKWORM, BUBONIC PLAGUE, AND PELLAGRA)
27. 27.CHAPTER XX — DISEASES CONTROLLED BY ANTITOXINS (SMALLPOX, RABIES, TETANUS)
28. 28.CHAPTER XXI — HYGIENE AND LAW — REGULATIONS GOVERNING FOODS — PROTECTION OF MILK — LAWS GOVERNING QUARANTINE
29. 29.INDEX — Cyclopedia of American Agriculture — Edited by L. H. BAILEY — Cyclopedia of American Horticulture — Edited by L. H. BAILEY — BOOKS ON AGRICULTURE — Price of sets: Cloth, $20 net; half-morocco, $32 net. — BOOKS OF GENERAL INTEREST — A Self-Supporting Home — By KATE V. ST. MAUR — Cloth, Illustrated, 12mo, $1.75 net — How to Keep Bees for Profit — By D. E. LYON — Cloth, Illustrated, 12mo, $1.50 net — How to Keep Hens for Profit — By C. S. VALENTINE — Cloth, Illustrated, $1.50 net — Manual of Practical Farming — By DR. JOHN McLENNAN — Cloth, Illustrated, 12mo, $1.50 net — Manual of Gardening — By L. H. BAILEY — Cloth, Illustrated, 12mo, $2.00 net — The Book of Vegetables and Garden Herbs — By ALLEN FRENCH — Cloth, Illustrated, 12mo, $1.75 net

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