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Title: Beginner's civics for North Dakota
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Boyle, James E. (James Ernest), 1873-1938
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Publisher: New York, Cincinnati (etc.) American book company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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er by the commonfly. For instance, we learn from these bulletins thatthere is but one way to get typhoid fever,—the germmust be taken into the stomach. This means that it iseaten with our food or drunk in our water or milk.Most commonly it is in the water and milk. The ty-phoid germ attacks the inner walls of the intestines,making them so thin that they may break and causedeath. The bulletins also teach that this little ty-phoid germ can come only from one source,—a typhoid Poorly Ventilated House(In this house four children died of tuberculosis) PUBLIC HEALTH 209 patient; and from this source the germ can come onlyin two possible ways, that is, from the bowels or kid-neys of the patient. In carrying this germ from thesick to the food and drink of the well, the fly is themost common agent. Hence boards of health are edu-cating the people against this small but powerfulenemy. Statistics are also published by health boards, con-cerning deaths from diseases, so that the people in one
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Detention Hospital State may compare their health conditions with thosein other States. Public Health Machinery.—The machinery for carry-ing out the public health work of the State and localgovernment is the following: (1) State Board of Health,consisting of three men, one of whom must be a doc-tor; (2) State Public Health Laboratory at GrandForks, in connection with the University, and the two 210 WORKINGS OF THE STATE GOVERNMENT branches at Bismarck and Minot; (3) State Tuber-culosis Sanitarium in the Turtle Mountains; (4) countyboard of health, consisting of three men, one of whommust be a doctor; (5) city health officer, who must bea doctor; (6) village trustees, and (7) township super-visors, both the latter sitting as boards of health/but not required by law to number doctors amongtheir members. By carefully studying the above, it will be seen thatvery few men are required to give their whole time andattention to the public health question. Perhaps itwould be wiser for the peo

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