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Title: Annals of hygiene
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Pennsylvania. State Board of Health
Subjects: Hygiene Public Health
Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press (etc.)
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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ccess to your house. The remedy. In the first place alwayshave a lid to your closet and alwayskeep it closed. In the second place,always keep the stoppers in your basinand bath tub outlets, and plug up youroverflow outlets before going away forthe summer. In the third place, letthe water run through your pipes, atintervals, during the summer, so thatthey will always be full; or, in thefourth place, if you cannot carry outthe third provision, and have reason tosuspect that the water in your trapshas evaporated, then disinfect yourhouse, as directed on page 208 of thisjournal, before you occupy it. This 304 THE ANNALS OF HYGIENE. may cause you some little trouble, but,it will be very much less annoyingthan a funeral. The careful housewifewill see to it that her wash tubs havewater in them while she is away in may mean the death of herself or someone dear to her. Do not say that youhave neglected these precautions foryears, yet have never been sick. Youmiirht as well say that because you
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summer, because, otherwise, she knowsthat they will fall apart, and she mustbuy new ones in the fall. Shall shethen neglect to have water in her traps,when she now knows that this neglect never have died, that is proof that youare not going to die. You cannot tellwhen your turn may come, and it be-hooves you to accept good advice andact upon it. The Annals of Hygiene. Vol. I. PHILADELPHIA, NOVEMBER 1, 1886. No. 11. dommuni cati ens. OVERWORK AND SANITATIONIN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OPPHILADELPHIA, WITH RE-MARKS ON THE INFLUENCEOF OVERWORK IN THE PRO-DUCTION OF NERVOUS DIS-EASES AND INSANITY* BY CHARLES K. MILLS, M.D.,President of the American Neurological Association, etc. (Concluded from October issue.) The influence of overwork in the pro-duction of nervous diseases and insanityis, on the one hand, sometimes over-rated, and, on the other, frequentlyoverlooked. It has always been a fav-orite subject with tyros in medicine andsocial science, but it is one which re-quires large practical ex

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