Rural Hygiene

by Henry N. Ogden

INDEX

Accuracy of death-rate records, [6].
Adenoids, [288].
Advantages, of gravity water-supply, [168], [169];
of hydraulic rams, [172];
of pond or lake water over brook water, [128].
Age and sex in disease, [299].
Aim of hygiene, [424].
Air, for breathing, [68];
for consumptives, [341];
in soils, [39].
Air-lifts for pumping, [107], [183].
Air-space in cellar walls, [53].
Alcohol as a stimulant, [275].
Allegheny Valley and cancer, [34].
Amount of food required, [269].
Analysis of proposed water-supply, [143].
Animal heat in barn, [88];
pollution of water, [136].
Animals, fit for butchering, [306];
in the study of disease, [250].
"Anopheles" mosquito, [380].
Antiseptics, [316];
in milk, [235].
Antitoxin, [306];
and disease, [396];
for diphtheria, [403];
for hydrophobia, [408];
for tetanus, [408];
for typhoid fever, [363].
Apparatus for driving wells, [119].
Appendicitis, [33].
Appetite for food, [266].
Application of sewage to land, [218].
Area for subsurface sewage disposal, [223].
Artificial sewage beds, [219].
Asphalt for cellar walls, [53].
Auto-intoxication, [312].
Automatic sewage syphon, [225].
Babylon, L. I., water-supply, [187].
Bacillus of typhoid fever, [351].
Back of cellar walls, [56].
Bacteria, and parasites, [302];
and sewage purification, [213];
in milk, [235].
Bacterial agencies, [304].
Bad air and its effects, [69].
Balanced rations, [263].
Barn ventilation, [88].
Barnyard drainage, [141].
Bathing for hygienic purposes, [285].
Beneficent bacteria, [304].
Billings's suggestion for ventilation, [80].
Billings's ventilation by stoves, [83].
Blankets, [281].
Blood resistance and disease, [297].
Bob-veal, [252].
Boiler for hot water, [198].
Boiling water for disinfection, [329].
Boston, Mass., water used in, [93].
Box radiators at window, [80].
Bright's disease in the country, [20].
Brooks as water-supply, [124].
Brush dam, [163].
Bubonic plague, [393].
Bucket water wheel, [175].
Cancer and soils, [33];
in Europe, [34].
Carbohydrates and digestion, [261].
Carbolic acid as disinfectant, [322].
Carbon dioxid in the air, [75].
Causes of typhoid fever, [350].
Cell disintegration, [297].
Cellar, floors, [59];
in limestone rock, [47];
ventilation, [60];
walls of dry masonry, [55].
Cellars and their drainage, [28].
Cement joints for well walls, [115].
Cesspools and wells, [116].
Changes in air breathed, [75].
Chemical poisons, [311].
Chicken pox, [375];
preliminary symptoms of, [367].
Children, as affecting the death rate, [8];
in Otsego and Putnam counties, [9].
Children's diseases, [364].
Chloride of lime, [325].
City milk, [247].
Cleanliness of stables, [63].
Clean milk, [242], [421].
Clean stables and their effects, [237].
Clothing, [280].
Coal-tar disinfectants, [323].
Coffee and tea, [272].
Cold baths, [286].
Composition, of air, [75];
of soils, [32].
Computations for rain-water storage, [101].
Concrete, core for dam, [159];
dam, [160];
for spring-chamber, [158];
in cellar floor, [60];
in stables, [64];
method of mixing, [66].
Construction, of air-tight barns, [89];
of dug wells, [113];
of houses, [49];
of septic tanks, [230].
Consumption and bad ventilation, [74].
Contagion in children's diseases, [386].
Contagious diseases, [305].
Cooking and digestion, [268].
Cooling of milk, [242], [247].
Corn and pellagra, [391].
Corrosive sublimate, [324].
Cost, of driven wells, [121];
of flush tank, [207];
of fuel for pumping, [178];
of operating gas engines, [178];
of plumbing, [200];
of ventilation, [87];
of water pipe, [168].
Cows and ventilation, [71].
Cow stables, ventilation of, [62].
Creamery and typhoid fever epidemic, [147].
Creosols, [323].
Crib dam, [163].
"Culex" mosquito, [380].
Curb for well, [141].
Cure of hookworm disease, [390].
Cut-off wall for dam, [160], [161].
Damp cellars, [27].
Damp courses in house walls, [56].
Dampness, and disease, [26];
of cellar walls, [52].
Damp soils, [27];
and their effects, [40].
Dams for reservoirs, [158].
Danger, from drainage of barns and barnyards, [137];
from leachings from privies and cesspools, [138].
Dangers, of polluted air, [73];
of polluted water, [144].
Death-rate, from typhoid fever, [11];
from typhoid fever in New York State, [15];
of babies in Rochester, [237];
records, accuracy of, [6].
Death-rates, at various ages, [10];
in general, [2];
in New York State, [4];
in rural communities, [8];
in various countries, [3];
of children, [9];
outside of New York City, [7].
Deaths from measles and scarlet fever, [365].
Decomposition in sewage, [209].
Deep well pump, [106].
Deep wells, [115].
Deficiency of water from well supply, [104].
Definition of sewage, [208].
Deodorizers, [317].
Detection of animal pollution, [137].
Diagnosis of diphtheria, [404].
Digestion and its requirements, [261].
Digestive processes, [259].
Dimensions of hydraulic rams, [173].
Diphtheria, [401];
and milk, [239];
antitoxin, [310], [402];
in the country, [19].
Direct causes of disease, [302].
Dirt and disease, [296].
Dirt dam, [159].
Disadvantages, of hydraulic rams, [171];
of windmills, [169].
Disease, the causes of, [295].
Diseases caused by milk, [238].
Disinfecting, agents, [315];
a room, directions for, [319];
gases, [318].
Disinfection, [314];
by heat, [327];
for chicken pox, [376];
for consumption, [337];
for measles, [373];
for scarlet fever, [371];
for whooping cough, [375].
Disposal of sewage and water-supply, [141].
Distilled water, [131].
Dogs and hydrophobia, [406].
"Don't Spit" axioms, [334].
Drafts from windows prevented, [79].
Drainage, [41];
around the house, [44], [50].
Drain, for house on side hill, [42];
from house plumbing, [200].
Drains leading to dug well, [104].
Driven well, in dug well, [105];
machinery, [119].
Driven wells, [118].
Drugs and their immoderate use, [275].
Dry heat for disinfection, [328].
Dry masonry for cellar walls, [55].
Dug wells, [112].
Dust and its dangers, [301].
Earache, [288].
Effect of bad ventilation, [73];
of hard water on health, [133];
of vegetable pollution of water, [135].
Elimination, of dangers of surface pollution, [140];
of mosquitoes, [381].
Enameled iron for plumbing fixtures, [196].
Epidemic diseases, [305].
Epidemics of typhoid fever, [354].
Eruption of measles, [372].
Eucalyptus trees and malaria, [378].
Evaporation from reservoirs, [103].
Exercise, after meals, [271];
of the body, [278].
Expectorations in cases of consumption, [334].
Exposure, and pneumonia, [346];
of a house, [29].
External causes of disease, [312].
Eyes and their troubles, [290].
Factory life and disease, [301].
Fall River, Mass., water used in, [93].
Faucets for plumbing, [195].
Field-stone dam, [160].
Filter beds for sewage in winter, [221].
Filtration of sewage, [219].
Finishing concrete surfaces, [67].
Fire protection and water-supply, [98].
Fire streams and water flow, [97].
Fish as destroyers of mosquitoes, [381].
Fixtures for plumbing, [191].
Fleas and the bubonic plague, [393].
Fletcher, and chewing, [259];
and his two meals, [269].
Flies and typhoid fever, [359].
Floods and stone dams, [161].
Floor of cellars, [59].
Flow of underground water, [111], [143].
Flush tank for water-closet, [206].
Food, for consumptives, [340];
for various body needs, [258].
Food adulteration laws, [416].
Foods and beverages, [257].
"Foos" gas engine, [178].
Formaldehyde, [321].
Forms for concrete cellar walls, [65].
Foul-air outlet for ventilation, [81].
Foundation for dam, [160].
Freezing in plumbing, [190].
Fresh-air inlet for ventilation, [77].
Friction with fire streams, [98].
Fried foods, [269].
Fuel for pumping, [178].
Galvanized iron water tanks, [185].
Garbage for filling low ground, [37].
Gas engines for pumping, [177].
Gastric juice, [260].
Gate house for reservoirs, [165].
Goiter and soils, [33].
Goulds Manufacturing Co. pumps, [181].
Grade, for house drains, [45];
for cellar drains, [51];
of subsurface tile, [222].
Ground water, [43].
Growth of mosquitoes, [384].
Habit and food, [267].
Hand basin in bath-room, [199].
Hands to be washed frequently, [287].
Hand valves for sewage tanks [227].
Hard water, [133].
Health departments, [416].
Heat, and plumbing, [190];
as a disinfectant, [327].
Heating and ventilation, [87].
Heredity and health, [298].
Homer, N. Y., water-supply, [105].
Hookworm disease, [302], [388].
Hot-air engines for pumping, [175].
Hot-water boiler, [198].
Hot-water circulation, [194].
House drainage, [200].
House drains, [44].
Hydraulic rams, [171].
Hydrophobia, [407].
Hygiene, and its laws, [410];
and its true purpose, [23].
Ice and typhoid fever, [353].
Ideality of life, [22].
Immunity—natural and artificial, [310].
Importance of bacteria, [305].
Impurity of surface water-supply, [140].
Indians and ventilation, [74].
Indirect causes of death, [312].
Infection in pneumonia, [348].
Influenza in the country, [19].
Inlet for fresh air, [78], [81].
Inspection of dairies, [421].
Installation of plumbing, [189].
Intermittent application of sewage on land, [213].
Iron pipe for conveying water, [167].
Irrigation and sickness, [36].
Irritation of cell tissue, [297].
Ithaca typhoid epidemic, [354].
Joints in soil-pipe, [203];
in tile pipe, [167].
Kerosene and mosquitoes, [383].
Kewanee Water Supply Co. tanks, [187].
King of ventilation, [86].
King's experiments on ventilation, [70].
Kitchen sinks, [196].
Kitchen stove and hot water, [195].
Koch and consumption, [333].
Land treatment of sewage, [216]
Laundry tubs, [196].
Law and hygiene, [410].
Laws against impure food, [416].
Lesions of tuberculosis, [252].
Level for house drain, [200].
Light, as a disinfectant, [330];
in cow stables, [62].
Lime for disinfecting, [324].
Liquid disinfectant, [321].
Location, of a house, [29];
of a house on a side hill, [32];
of privies and cesspools, [31];
of windmill, [171].
Long Island wells, [112].
Loss of head by friction, [129].
Lowell typhoid epidemic, [355].
Lungs, air required by the, [68];
developed by exercise, [279].
Made ground and health, [37].
Malaria, [302], [377];
caused by soil formation, [33];
from cellars, [39].
Malarial attacks, [385].
Manure from cow stables, [244].
Maximum rate of water consumption, [95].
Measles, and its virulence, [371];
preliminary symptoms, [367].
Meat and its dangers, [249].
Mercury as a disinfectant, [324].
Metchnikoff's theory of auto-intoxication, [233].
Methods of collection of water, [153];
of securing fall for hydraulic rams, [175].
Milk, and its adulteration, [419];
and its care, [233];
and typhoid fever, [358];
of lime, [325];
supply of Rochester, N. Y., [237].
Milk-pail for clean milk, [245].
Mineral matter in water, [132].
Minimum rainfalls, [100].
Mixing concrete, [66].
Moisture and its dangers, [39].
Montclair typhoid epidemic, [359].
Mosquitoes, and malaria, [380];
and yellow fever, [387].
Mount Savage typhoid epidemic, [357].
Mouth breathing, [287].
Muslin cloth to prevent drafts, [81].
Narrow-topped milk-pail, [245].
Natural immunity, [310].
Need for rural hygiene, [21].
Newton, Mass., water used in, [92].
New York State, death-rates in, [6].
Night air and malaria, [26].
Objectionable construction work at a spring reservoir, [154].
Objections to brooks as source of water-supply, [125].
Occupation and disease, [301].
Old age mortality in the country, [20].
Openings for ventilation, size of, [85].
Organic matter, in soil, [38];
in the air, [76].
Outfall for cellar drain, [52].
Outlet, for drains, [47];
for foul air, [81].
Ownership in streams, [415].
Oxygen in the air, [75].
Oysters and typhoid fever, [361].
Pancreatic juice and digestion, [261].
Parasites as causes of disease, [302].
Pasteurization for typhoid fever, [352].
Patented disinfectants, [317].
Patent medicines, [276].
Peeling, in measles, [373];
in scarlet fever, [369].
Pellagra, [391].
Pipe lines, [165].
Plank dam, [159].
Pleasure in eating, [270].
Plumbing, [189];
and heating, [190];
and water consumption, [93].
Pneumonia, [333];
germ, [344];
in the country, [20].
Pollution, of streams, [211];
of water, [414];
of water by animal matter, [136];
of wells, [142].
Ponds or lakes as water-supply, [127].
Position of fresh-air inlet, [81].
Precautions on part of consumptive, [337].
Preparation of rabies antitoxin, [309].
Pressure for water-supplies, [128].
Pressure tanks, [186].
Prevention of pneumonia, [346].
Principle of hygienic law, [411].
Privy, construction of, [61].
Process of bacterial attack, [307].
Production of diphtheria antitoxin, [403].
Protection, against mosquitoes, [385];
against smallpox, [398].
Proteids in food, [260].
Ptomaines, [250].
Pump for deep well, [106].
Pumping water, [168].
Purity of water-supply, [131].
Quantity of water in stables, [94];
of water per person, [92];
of water used, [90].
Quarantine, regulations, [422];
for scarlet fever, [369].
Quinine and malaria, [378], [386].
Rabies, [406];
antitoxin, [309].
Radiators by windows, [79].
Rain-water, storage, [101];
supply, [99].
Rates of water consumption, [95].
Rations for daily use, [263].
Register in the ceiling, [85].
Remedies, for consumption, [340];
for pneumonia, [347].
Reservoir, for brook supply, [126];
on a brook, [102].
Resistance, of body to disease, [297], [308];
to tuberculosis, [335].
Rest for consumptives, [340].
Results of measles and scarlet fever, [366].
Rochester and the milk supply, [237].
Rock formations and hygiene, [35].
Roof of spring-chamber, [157].
Rubber boots, [283].
Running trap for main drain, [201].
Rusting of driven-well casing, [119].
Saliva from mouth, [260].
Sand filter beds for sewage, [219].
Scarlet fever, and milk, [240];
preliminary symptoms of, [367];
quarantine, [369].
Scarlatina, [369].
School vaccination, [412].
Scurvy and fresh vegetables, [266].
Sedimentation of sewage, [227].
Septic tanks, [229].
Sewage disposal, [208].
Sewage-sick land, [214].
Sewage treatment on land, [213].
Sewer pipe in wells, [105].
Sewers and sickness, [36].
Sex and age in disease, [299].
Shallow wells, [113].
Sinks, for kitchen, [196];
and their discharges, [214].
Size, of openings for fresh air, [85];
of pipe for conveying water, [166];
of spring reservoir, [156];
of waste weir, [163].
Slaughter-houses, [255].
Sleep, [292].
Smallpox, [396];
and chicken pox, [399];
instead of chicken pox, [376].
Smoking and its effects, [275].
Soap, as an antiseptic, [326];
its relation to hard and soft water, [134].
Soil, air and its exclusion, [49];
for disinfection, [331].
Soil-pipe in house, [201].
Somerville typhoid epidemic, [359].
Sources of water-supply, [108].
Space between houses, [30].
Spring-chamber, [157].
Spring, extensions, [123];
reservoirs, [155].
Springs, [121];
and their formation, [109].
Squirrels, and the bubonic plague, [395];
in the attic, [30].
Stables, and dirty milk, [237];
and water consumption, [94];
for clean milk, [242];
space required per cow, [63];
ventilation, [86].
Stamford typhoid epidemic, [359].
Steam, for disinfection, [329];
pumps, [179].
"Stegomyia mosquito," [386].
Sterilization of milk, [234].
Stone dam, [159].
Storage, on a brook, [102];
reservoirs, [127];
tank for rain-water, [101].
Stoves used in ventilation, [82].
Strainer for milk-pail, [246].
Stream, pollution, [210];
supplies, [158].
Subsurface, irrigation field, [224];
sewage disposal, [223].
Sulfur as a disinfectant, [318].
Sunlight as a disinfectant, [331].
Supply tank for domestic plumbing, [192].
Surface use of land for sewage treatment, [216].
Swamps and malaria, [381].
Symptoms of diphtheria, [401], [404];
of smallpox, [399];
of yellow fever, [387].
Syphons, for automatic discharge, [225];
for septic tanks, [229].
Systems of house drainage, [45].
Tanks, for sedimentation, [228];
for water storage, [183].
Tannin in tea, [274].
Tapeworm, [303].
Tar, for cellar walls, [53];
paper for water-proofing, [54].
Tea as a drink, [273].
Teeth and their care, [291].
Tetanus, [408].
Thymol for hookworm disease, [390].
Tile pipe line, [166].
Tobacco and its effects, [275].
Topography and hygiene, [34].
Toxic action, [308].
Transmission of typhoid fever by polluted water, [145].
Traps for plumbing, [204].
Trap-vents, [203].
Treatment, of hydrophobia, [408];
of sewage on land, [213];
of smallpox, [400];
of typhoid fever, [361].
Trees and the hygienic home, [30].
Trichinosis, [253], [303].
Tuberculosis, [332];
and milk, [240];
death-rates, [18];
in the country, [19];
in the United States, [18].
Tuberculous meats, [251].
Typhoid bacillus, [351].
Typhoid fever, [308], [349];
and milk, [238];
epidemic at Butler, Pa., [146];
epidemic at Caterham, England, [145];
epidemic at Kerhonkson, N. Y., [150];
epidemics, [354];
in ice, [353];
in New York State, [13];
in small cities, [14];
in Spanish-American War, [360];
rates in the country, [12].
Unadilla Valley and cancer, [34].
Uncinariasis, [389].
Underdrains for sewage disposal, [231].
Underground waters, [109].
Underwear, [281].
United States Department of Agriculture and diseased meat, [251].
University of Pennsylvania radiators, [79].
Use of cement in well walls, [115].
Vaccination, [397].
Variation in maximum rates of water use, [96].
Vegetable, beds and sewage, [218];
pollution of water, [135].
Ventilation, [68];
experiments on hens, [71];
by stoves, [82];
of bedrooms, [283];
of cellars, [60];
of stables, [86];
through walls, [72].
Vents for traps at fixtures, [203].
Vitality of the typhoid germ, [352].
Volume, of sewage, [209];
of space in cow stables, [63].
Vomiting in whooping cough, [374].
Walls for spring reservoirs, [155], [156].
Wash-basin in bath-room, [199].
Washing, milk-pails, [246];
soda for disinfection, [329].
Wash-tubs, [197].
Waste weirs, [163].
Water, in the soil, [38];
needed for house, [90];
transmission of typhoid fever, [354];
used per head, [92];
with meals, [272].
Water-closets, [205].
Water-proofing of cellar walls, [58].
Water-supply and intelligence, [91].
Water tanks, [183].
Water-tight masonry for wells, [142].
Weather and pneumonia, [345].
Wells, and cesspools, [31];
and typhoid fever, [357];
on Long Island, [112].
Well supplies, [104].
Whooping cough, [373].
Will power and sleep, [293].
Windmills, [169], [170].
Windmill with pressure tanks, [188].
Window openings for ventilation, [78].
Winter care for sewage beds, [221].
Wooden tank for water, [193].
Work of a farmer's day, [21].
Worthington pump, [182].
Yellow fever, [386].

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